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ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE, THE

Comedy
By Alan Heckner
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CHILDREN OF OEDIPUS, THE

Drama
By Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia
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CON, THE

Horror
By Bryan Starchman
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DARK TOWER, THE

Drama
By Bobby Keniston
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EPIC FAIL

Comedy
By Bradley Hayward
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FRANKENSTEIN UNPLUGGED

Drama
Adapted by Jonathan Yukich
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HOW I LEARNED TO STOP BEING...

Comedy
By Bobby Keniston
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HOW TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Comedy
By Bradley Walton
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IPHIGENIA AT AULIS

Tragedy
Adapted by Philip Lerman
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MACHINATIONS

Farce
By Reid Conrad
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NIGHTMARE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE

Drama
By Edward J. Walsh
and Robert Thomas Noll
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REALITY SHOW PRINCE ABSURDLY..

Comedy
By Eddie Zipperer
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SCREENAGERS

Comedy
By Jim and Jane Jeffries
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SECRET IDENTITY: Adventure...

Comedy
By Will Ledesma
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SOLDIERS YOUNG AND BRAVE

Drama
By Lorraine Thompson
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SURVIVOR, THE

Horror
By Bryan Starchman
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TRIPLE THREAT

Comedy
By Wiley Russell
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TROJAN WOMEN, THE

Tragedy
Adapted by Philip Lerman
 
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T-Shirt PictureSUPERHERO SANITARIUM Comedy By Scott Haan
3 m, 3 w
Script: 40 pages.
Lois Lancaster is a big-city journalist writing about the current state of mental health facilities. Her research takes her to a hospital populated with a unique group of quirky inmates who imagine they are crime-fighting superheroes. Speed Freak thinks he can run at incredible speeds, while enthusiastic more...

T-Shirt PictureSHUFFLING Comedy By Ken Preuss
1 m, 1 w, 1-14 flexible
Script: 29 pages.
Lacey, a teenage girl, has finished work at the mall and is waiting – and waiting – for her boyfriend to pick her up. Left stranded yet again, she reevaluates her love life while through the songs on her iPod. Actors portraying each of the songs appear with comedic monologues that stir her more...

T-Shirt PictureFRUMPLED FAIRY TALES Comedy By Bill Springer
Flexible cast 5 - 18
Script: 26 pages
Puns and pratfalls abound in this fun, frumpled 35-minute version of three Grimm fairy tales. And with the help of a narrator, the audience can cheer the heroes and boo the villains. In "Rumpelstiltskin," a greedy king, a miller's daughter and a comical chap named Rumpelstiltskin all more...

T-Shirt PictureTEN ACTORS IN SEARCH OF A CELL Comedy By James Rayfield
4 m, 6 w
Script: 24 pages
Just as the stage manager is getting ready to call "Places" for the start of the school's play, everything comes to a screeching halt. Brandy has discovered that her cell phone is missing and refuses to go on until she finds it. The other actors try to help her re-create her every move to find the more...

T-Shirt PictureATTENTION DETENTION Comedy By Bradley Hayward
Entirely gender flexible cast of 6 to 21
Script: 36 pages.
Setting: Classroom.
Four honor roll students have been summoned to detention. To avoid punishment, they each come up with a preposterous excuse for their tardiness, and their wacky tales are acted out by an ensemble of performers. As one wild lie piles on top of t more...

T-Shirt PictureAMERICA'S NEXT TOP...STUDENT Comedy By Alan Heckner
5 m, 9 w, 1 flexible
Script: 40 pages. Almost an hour.
Ten students from across the U.S.A. compete for the title of “America’s Next Top Model Student” in the latest TV reality show. Host Myra Thanks and the show’s judges, M’Lady Andrews, Judge Julie, and Mr. Blaine Rose, put each student to the test in a series of bizarre and h more...

T-Shirt PictureSATURDAY MATINEE Comedy By Dan Roberts
3 m, 7 w, 4 flexible
Script: 28 pages
Movie audiences can often be as entertaining as the film itself. This imaginative one-act comedy takes place during the waiting period before a movie begins, offering a rare look at the personalities and idiosyncrasies of typical teen audience members. Alice only wants to enjoy the movie alo more...

T-Shirt PictureATTACK OF THE POM-POM ZOMBIES Comedy By Stephen Murray
7 m, 16 w, 5 flexible, extras
Script: 40 pages
It's the 1960s, a big nuclear blast to the past! School's out for the summer, and the teenagers of Ocean View High are ready to surf, sun and have some fun. Their favorite hangout is Barnacle Betty's Surf Club, which happens to be right next door to the evil Ivana Rat more...

T-Shirt PictureHOW TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Comedy By Bradley Walton
Flexible cast of 8
Script: 30 pages
Five less-than-stellar students meet to work on their group English project. Their assigned reading: Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird." Unfortunately, not one of the five has actually read the book. In fact, nobody even brought a copy of the book along. Worst of all, they’re not exactly more...

T-Shirt PictureTEXT THIS Drama By Tim Mogford
A one-act play about cyber-bullying
4 w
Script: 23 pages
For two weeks Amy’s life has been unbearable. An intimate conversation she had online with a boy she likes has been cut and pasted so many times that she is now the laughingstock of the school. To make matters worse, she has been receiving threatening text messages, and h more...

T-Shirt PictureEPIC FAIL Comedy By Bradley Hayward
Entirely gender flexible cast of 5-30+
Script: 25 pages.
Performance time: 30 minutes.
Teenagers are faced with failure every day. Some mornings it feels like they have the letter F stamped on their foreheads in bright red ink. In a series of hilarious vignettes, students take on a multitude of challenges, each from a more...

T-Shirt PicturePOE-DUNKED Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
6 or more flexible characters
Script: 43 pages
Twelve short scenes depict events in the life of Edgar Allan Poe -- or how his life might have been in today's world! Some of the more popular tales are represented: "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a police investigation; "The Cask of Amontillado" is a Jerry Springer-type TV show; more...

T-Shirt PictureI CAN'T GO OUT THERE Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
7 m, 8 w, 3 flexible (minimum with doubling: 2m, 3 w, 3 flexible)
Script: 36 pages
This one-act comedy in four scenes chronicles the different stages of the stage. In elementary school, a frustrated teacher deals with stage fright while trying to direct young children in a play about jackrabbits and a mean old dog. In middl more...

T-Shirt Picture110TH STREET STATION Drama By Burton Bumgarner
3 m, 6 w
Script: 28 pages
During the wait for the next subway train, the assembled characters think only of their own plights. There's Estelle, an eccentric woman who sits in the station doing cross-stitch and talking with Grover, a street person; Julia, a wealthy woman whose expensive car has just broken down and who i more...

T-Shirt PictureNEXT! Comedy By Rand Higbee
3 m, 4 w, 1 flexible part
Script: 20 pages
"" is about a series of college freshmen who are auditioning for a play ... the oddest group of wannabe actors you'll ever meet. From the girl who has the ultimate case of stage fright to the basketball star who's just doing it on a dare, this witty comedy is destined to be a s more...

T-Shirt PictureHEX MARKS THE SPOT Comedy By Scott Haan
4 m, 4 w, 5 flexible, plus 1 extra optional female
Script: 40 pages.
Jean Emery is a normal high school girl whose world gets turned upside down when she receives a surprising letter in the mail from her eccentric aunt. The letter claims that Jean has magical powers and the ability to grant wishes. Jean dismisses it as a joke, bu more...

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASSTHROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Classic By Jim Geisel
With doubling: 2 m, 4 w.
Spatial setting.
Script: 36 pages. Almost an hour.
Before putting "" down on paper in 1860s, Lewis Carroll told a colleague’s young daughter, Alice Liddell (the real Alice in the books), the story of talking chess pieces. The novel, of course, was a sequel to his earlier one, "Alice in Wonderland."
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T-Shirt PictureHELP WANTED Comedy By James Rayfield
Widely flexible cast of 10 or more
Script: 23 pages
OK, teens, listen up. If you want to drive a car, go to college/grad night/prom, get a class ring or new clothes, you're going to have to - find a JOB! All the fun, frustrations and foibles of part-time jobs are explored in these scenes and monologues, from making a hamb more...

T-Shirt PictureDON'T SAY MACBETH! Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
Widely flexible cast from 9 to 40
Script: 36 pages
Setting: Several café tables and assorted chairs.
A poor student is struggling to read Shakespeare's great tragedy, "Macbeth," while in a coffee shop next door to a theater. The student gets a study boost from waitress, who was an English major, and four customers, who more...

T-Shirt PictureRUNNING UPSTREAM Drama By Bryan McCampbell
3 m, 3 w
Script: 32 pages
"All you have to do is look in his eyes and you can see the wheels turning a million miles a minute. Problem is, not too many people take the time to look for his eyes, past his arms and legs. Sometimes, even me." These are Danny Osgood's thoughts concerning his brother, David,who is entering more...

T-Shirt PictureVOICES FROM THE TITANIC Drama By Pat Cook
Flexible cast from 18 (with doubling)
Script: 34 pages
(2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking.)
The stage comes alive with passengers and crew of the Titanic, speaking to us directly about the disaster. We see the magnificent vessel through the eyes of both the first class passengers and the third class. When Frede more...

T-Shirt PictureCAPRICIOUS PEARLS Comedy By Virginia Kidd
4 m, 9 w
Script: 31 pages
When Boss and his gang reconvene after being dismissed from parts better left unsaid, they go over the original map Boss had drawn showing where he had hidden a valuable string of pearls in a vacant house. They find it is now a home for aged ladies - and what ladies! Grannie Carlson loves to scoot in more...

T-Shirt PictureFINE DINING Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
4 m, 4 w
Script: 42 pages
This delicious comedy is made up of three scenes set in a restaurant during the time customers arrive, place their orders, and await their meals. The scenes include "The Irritated Man," "Anxiety Dreams," and "Stephen King Goes to Lunch." The eight actors change roles with each scene, playing a spoil more...

T-Shirt PicturePERSONALS AND PROPOSALS Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
4 m, 4 w
Script: 37 pages
Four men and four women perform seven hilarious scenes about dating and marriage proposals. Three scenes highlight trying to find someone special through an online dating service called Meet-interesting-people-who-will-like-you.com. As our singles find out, however, the site doesn't live up to i more...

T-Shirt PictureEXPOSÉ: HOLIDAY CELEBRITIES Comedy By Bryan Starchman
13 m, 11 w, 4 flexible, extras,
much doubling possible
Script: 40 pages
Every month many look to their calendars and start counting down the days until the next holiday. But what about those who are working behind the scenes to make these holidays great? What about the everyday problems of Cupid, leprechauns, and the New Y more...

T-Shirt PictureWAITING FOR MY CYBER BOY Comedy By Tim Mogford
Cast: 3 m, 4 w
Script pages: 24
Performance Time. About 30 minutes
Becky has been talking online with a guy for several weeks now. He’s really sweet, so obviously he’s not a weirdo or anything. Now she sits on a park bench, anxiously awaiting their first meeting in person. On the other bench sits her friend Trisha, who is the more...

T-Shirt PictureBURGLARS, BUNGLERS . . . Farce By Daniel Munson
1 m, 5 w
Script: 23 pages
When two big-time bunglers like John and Darlene attempt to burglarize an apartment, they get a coat hanger stuck in the door lock and then manage to accidentally ring the doorbell. When they do finally break in, Darlene's nervous bladder forces her to make an emergency bathroom visit. All this ru more...

T-Shirt PictureHOW I LEARNED TO STOP BEING... Comedy By Bobby Keniston
5 m, 7 w, 4 flexible. Some doubling possible.
Script: One act. 36 pages.
Forget the school yard bully! There's always one teacher who can intimidate us! Will, an average high school freshman, used to love going to school…until he stumbled upon the terror of gym class under the formidable Mr. Breakwater's rule. Wil more...

NO CHEWINGNO CHEWING Farce By Sarah C. James
1 m, 2 w
Script: 19 pages
The government has banned it, so people are buying it on dark and hazardous city streets, using it in the secrecy of their own cellars, in airplane bathrooms, in dark closets, and rebelling by the threes and fours. What is this dangerous and outlawed substance? It's chewing gum! And secret agent more...

T-Shirt PictureTRUE STORY OF CINDERELLA Comedy By Richard L. Conlon
1 m, 4 w
Script: 32 pages
Boy, did the "evil" stepsisters and stepmother get a bum wrap. Now they tell their side of the story - about how Cinderella martyred herself into subservience and gave up control of her life, waiting for the right man to take care of her. The two stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella, used education more...

FROM SHAKESPEARE WITH LOVE?FROM SHAKESPEARE WITH LOVE? Comedy By Jonathan Dorf
With doubling: 2 m, 2 w
Script: 28 pages
Four of the Bard's characters wait for an overdue flight to London. When Romeo reveals that he plans to revenge himself upon Shakespeare, whom he blames for ruining his life, by killing him in a duel, it's up to the others, Titania, Viola and Antipholus, to save Shakespeare by sh more...

T-Shirt PictureLOONIES AND SNATCHERS Farce By Emilio Regina
3 m, 3 w, 5 flexible parts
Script: 35 pages
An undercover policeman is sitting on a park bench impersonating an old woman in the hopes of catching a purse snatcher red-handed. To his surprise, there is more than one purse snatcher, or so he thinks. Passersby, including a jogger escaping a vicious dog, a harried business woman, more...

T-Shirt Picture65 MUSTANG Comedy With Heart By Burton Bumgarner
With doubling: 4 m, 4 w
Script: 40 pages
Set in and around a 1965 Ford Mustang, the play is made up of five scenes, each a decade apart. Each scene depicts events in the lives of people who own, drive, or come in contact with the classic car. Actors portray parents, young children, punks, spoiled brats, criminals, policemen more...

T-Shirt PictureCRISIS, INC. Farce By Daniel Munson
1 m, 3 w, 5 flexible, extras
Script: 28 pages
Wait—start worrying! No wait—don’t worry. Let worry for you. This farce takes place in the lobby of a business which provides the service of panicking for people. When you have a panic situation and you can’t focus on what to do next, you hire Crisis Inc. to do the panicking so yo more...

T-Shirt PictureCOMMEDIA ALADDIN Commedia By Lane Riosley
2 m, 2 w
Script: 45 pages.
The zany antics of the commedia style, with lots of bumbling, scheming, incorrigible improvisations and very physical comedy, allows just four traveling actors to create this fast-paced story of Aladdin. Arelquin, Punchin, Columbine and Rosetta portray all the many roles in the story of a lazy young bo more...

T-Shirt PictureWITH REGARD TO COOPER CLAWSON' Comedy By Bryan Starchman
11 m, 7 w, 5 flexible, extras
Or with doubling, minimum of 6 m, 5 w, 1 flexible, extras
Script: 35 pages
We've all heard the story of the geek who turns chic, but wouldn't it be interesting if the popular kid was forced to become a geek for the good of mankind? Well, that's exactly what happens in this hilarious more...

T-Shirt PictureHURRY UP AND WAIT! Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
4 m, 4 w
Script: 52 pages
Waiting in line? Waiting your turn? You don’t have time! Here’s a comedy in six scenes for those who are time-challenged. In the first scene a desperate woman has only 20 minutes to get to the airport to catch her flight and no matter what her beleaguered taxi driver says or does, they remain stuck more...

T-Shirt PictureSORRY, SHAKESPEARE! Comedy By Mike Willis
2 m, 2 w
Script: 20 pages.
Four high school students report to the school auditorium for play rehearsal only to find out the director is not coming. To add to the confusion, one of the cast members has dropped three rehearsal scripts, of which all the pages are unbound and unnumbered. The pages fly everywhere. No problem! - unles more...

T-Shirt PictureCONFORM! Farce By Reid Conrad
4 m, 5 w
Script: 26 pages
"" is an absurdist farce which takes place in a park where three men in boxes comment on humanity and the passersby who frequent their territory. They urge one and all to conform to the constraints of society, but in the end it is they who must practice what they preach. Through the use of stereotype, cl more...

T-Shirt PictureMOST DANGEROUS GAME Drama by Burton Bumgarner
Inspired by the short story by Richard Connell
3 m, 3 w
Script: 32 pages
In this updated version of a classic thriller, corporate headhunters give new meaning to the term "hunting." Throughout the Zaroff Corporation's long history, success is based on finding the right employees. Four professionals are invited for an i more...

T-Shirt PictureMURDER BOX Mystery By Reid Conrad
4 m, 8 w
Script pages: 37
At the end of the 1940s an old theatre building is about to be torn down. As the theatre's acting troupe is packing up the props, costumes and set pieces, an old magician's trunk is wheeled onstage. Suddenly, members of the company are turning up dead. Margaret, the director's assistant, more...

T-Shirt PictureREALITY FRIGHTS Comedy By Michelle S. Uyemura
Flexible cast of 13.
(Approx. 2-6 males, 7-11 females.)
Script: 41 pages. About an hour.
Sequestered in an old theatre, nine prospective contestants must battle wits--and the witless!--to become the chosen few for the latest, greatest reality show, “.” As soon as the diverse contestants turn in their cell phones and int more...

LAST TRAINLAST TRAIN Historic Drama By R. James Scott
6 m, 5 w, extra flexible roles.
Boxcar setting, exterior and interior.
Script: 32 pages. About 45 minutes.
World War II lingers on. The unspeakable operations in the death camps are slated for closure, but there is still time for one to deliver prisoners before the Americans arrive. Two young German soldiers, Hans and Eric, more...

T-Shirt PictureNIGHT OF THE LIVID DAD Comedy By Marc Holland and Michael Davis
2 m, 3 w
Script: 22 pages
As his teenaged daughter readies for her first date, George Masters must decide whether to act like a father with great wisdom...or allow his imagination to run completely amok. Is his daughter's boyfriend a wild surfer dude, a tough biker hood or even a nose-in-the-air intellectua more...

WHAT PART WILL I PLAY?WHAT PART WILL I PLAY? Drama by Mary Hall Surface
13 females (also two offstage voices, 1 m, 1 f)
Open stage or simple set. About 60 minutes.
Number of script pages: 43.
This play gives a voice to young women's hopes and dreams, fears and failures, fantasies and hard-knocks. The girls arrive at a theatre to audition for a promising new play. Each girl has come with h more...

T-Shirt PictureFRUMP TALES Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
17 actors, (1 m, 3 w, 13 flexible)
or with doubling as few as 7
Script: 36 pages
Mega-millionaire Ronald Frump (known as "The Ronald"), a tough businessman, has purchased a company called All the Fairy Tales in the World, Inc., and it isn't making a profit. With the assistance of his loyal (and wimpy) secretary, Miss F more...

T-Shirt PictureDEAR CHUCK Comedy With Heart By Jonathan Dorf
Widely flexible cast from 10 to 30+ actors
Script: 48 pages.
Wanting to swim once again in the kiddie pool at the local swim club. Struggling to keep up with wealthy private school friends. Battling parents for shopping independence or to keep them from redecorating in parental bad taste. Holding it together after a classmate more...

T-Shirt PictureCHILDREN OF OEDIPUS, THE Drama By Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia
A Re-Imagination of Sophocles’ "Antigone"
7 m, 3 f, 2 flexible, chorus, extras
Script: 42 pages.
This new dramatic adaptation of "Antigone" offers a voice to characters who were previously unheard in the traditional Sophocles version. Polynices, Haemon, Ismene, and Eurydice -- each becomes an integral part of the more...

T-Shirt PictureRANSOM OF RED CHIEF Classic Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
2 m, 4 w, 2 flexible, extras, doubling possible
Script: 33 pages
Here is a hip, contemporary adaptation of O'Henry's famous short story. Bonnie, Bridget and Billy Driscoll are living in a dumpy apartment, their credit cards charged to the max, trying to make it on their own in New York. When Bridget brings more...

T-Shirt PictureDUI=DOA Drama By Dan Roberts
Flexible casting
Script: 24 pages
The effects of drunk driving are brought home in these two very short one-acts combined under one title. In "Only Seventeen" (3 m, 4 w, 2 flexible), Corey Martin is dead from drinking and driving. At his funeral he desperately calls out to his family and friends,"I can't be dead. I'm o more...

T-Shirt PictureDOCTOR IS IN Comedy By J. Michael Shirley
2 m, 2 w, 6 flexible
Script: 16 pages
If humor is the best medicine, get ready to feel great! Slade, new to the hospital housekeeping staff, has just been given his cleaning duties in a patient's room when a lovely nurse mistakes him for a new doctor. She thinks his bumbling is just a little professional humor and more...

T-Shirt PictureTHAT'S THE TICKET Comedy By Eddie McPherson
Adapted from his full-length play,
“Shoestring Theatre”
6 m, 11 w, extras
Script: 36 pages.
Sanders, the director of a small community theatre production, is very upset. The budget that is to fund his season opener is being cut by eighty percent. This play is to be an epic retelling of the timeless classic “Cinderella,” b more...

T-Shirt PictureTIME IN / TIME OUT Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
6 m, 8 w
Script: 30 pages
A group of students from the late '60s are suffering through "time-out" suspension in school. A dreaded teacher, Miss Pruette (who is never seen on stage), lectures them on the seriousness of their infractions. If they only knew the consequences of their actions, they would act differently. Sh more...

QUEEN OF THE SILENT SCREAMQUEEN OF THE SILENT SCREAM Mystery By Craig Sodaro
5 m, 5 w.
Script: 22 pages
Norma Starr, one of the last great silent screen stars, made her share of enemies during her career and she's gathered all of them for her birthday celebration - her director, a rising starlet, her shifty agent, a handsome matinee idol, her costume designer, her maid, and her oldest friend, who carr more...

T-Shirt PictureSENIOR YEAR SURVIVOR Comedy By James Rayfield
4 m, 3 w
Script: 46 pages
Reality TV has discovered one of the most daunting, desolate, and demanding terrains on planet Earth: America's public schools. Six students from Desert Wasteland High School, sporting various backgrounds and personalities, have been selected for "." Who will be left standing after the slew of co more...

T-Shirt PictureHIT THE BOOKS Comedy By Dwayne Yancey
1 m, 4 w
Script: 24 pages
Molly, a college student studying for exams, becomes so frustrated she hits herself in the head with her art history textbook. Suddenly, she thinks she’s the Mona Lisa. Her roommate, Abby, becomes frantic. A suitemate, Zoë, arrives who thinks the logical thing to do is to hit Abby on the head with an more...

T-Shirt PictureTHINGS THAT FLY Drama By R. James Scott
4 m, 4 w, 2 flexible
One outdoor setting
Script: 23 pages.
Eleven-year-old Robert, with help from his little sister Sally, has built a flying machine in their backyard. On launch day, he is hassled by his older brother Bryan, as well as the local neighbor kids. When the machine fails to operate as Robert expects, he is laughed more...

LAST LEAFLAST LEAF Classic Adapted by Robert Brome
3 m, 3 w
Script: 21 pages
Two girls pursue art careers in New York, sharing a dingy, one-room flat. One grows sick when her paintings fail to sell. Only a vigorous desire to live can enable her to survive. She counts dead ivy leaves on a vine outside the window, convinced when the falls she will die. The morning af more...

T-Shirt PictureTRIPLE THREAT Comedy By Wiley Russell
6 m, 11 w, 1 flexible
Some doubling possible.
Script: 39 pages. About 45 minutes.
Babysitter Ariel Watson is watching the 13-year-old triplet daughters of a famous scientist and his wife. What Ariel does not know is that the triplets have a time-traveling device in their bedroom, which brings copies of themselves out of a more...

MOUSE AND THE STORYTELLERMOUSE AND THE STORYTELLER Comedy Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From short stories by H.H. Munro (Saki)
5 m, 7 w, 3 flexible, extras, doubling
Script: 36 pages
"The " are two hilarious tales which take place aboard a train traveling from Philadelphia to Boston. In Philadelphia two architects board the train and sit next to a frail, elderly sleeping lady. They have checked out a more...

RUN ROBBER RUNRUN ROBBER RUN Comedy By R. A. Anderson and R.L. Sweeney
4 m, 8 w
Script: 38 pages
Otto and Spider are trying to crack a safe in what seems to be a mansion. However, they have inadvertently stumbled into an exclusive girls school. The headmistress mistakes them for a visiting professor and newly-hired stable hand. The girls have a plot of their own. They've more...

T-Shirt PictureMONKEY'S PAW Mystery / Horror adapted by L. Don Swartz
from the original by W. W. Jacobs
2 m, 3 w
Script: 22 pages
A mysterious storyteller leaves a grisly talisman with a Midwestern farm family, assuring them that it will grant them three wishes, but warning them to pitch the monkey's paw on the fire, as it will bring them nothing but death. The father makes the fir more...

JOCELYN'S WORLDJOCELYN'S WORLD Satire By Rand Higbee
1 w, 4 flexible
Script: 27 pages
Jocelyn has just applied to become Earth's first interplanetary foreign exchange student on the planet of Castino. Before she can actually start classes at the school for extraterrestrials, however, she must convince a panel of aliens that she is worthy of the honor. Even more of a challenge more...

ONE MILLION POUND BANK NOTEONE MILLION POUND BANK NOTE Drama With Humor Dramatized by Dave Brandl
From the story by Mark Twain
5 m, 5 w
Script: 40 pages
It's the 1800s and two wealthy British siblings, Annabel and Edward, make a bet between them whether a destitute man can survive a month in London if they give him a million-pound bank note. Because the man cannot account for the note being in his possession, more...

ATTACK OF THE GIANT EX'SATTACK OF THE GIANT EX'S Comedy By James Rayfield
1 m, 3 w
Script: 23 pages
Danny's journey into the world of high school romance begins with Laurie, a girl who shares his enthusiasm for videos and hanging out at the neighborhood shopping center. But when a hot number named Brooke blows in from Hollywood, things start to fall apart as Danny shifts from hometown girl to mo more...

T-Shirt PictureCROSSES TO BEAR Drama By Bryan McCampbell
5 m, 5 w, 6 flexible, extras, doubling possible
Script: 28 pages
How students cope with the death of classmates due to drinking and driving is poignantly brought home in this one-act. On one side, Lisa is consumed with guilt because she didn't take away her brother's car keys, even though she knew he drank. On the o more...

STOPLIGHTSTOPLIGHT Comedy By Raleigh Marcell
1 m, 3 w
One simple suggested setting.
Script: 24 pages. About 30 minutes.
Four young people are driving to Grandma's for the holidays through a deserted stretch of highway with an "obeyer of all laws" at the wheel. They come to a in the middle of nowhere as it changes from green to red. They stop. And wait. And w more...

STRING OF LIGHTSSTRING OF LIGHTS Drama By Terry Earp
1 w, 1 flexible
24 pages. About 30 minutes.
This is the story of two displaced people: Esther, an escapee from a nursing home, and Nathan, a young runaway who is fresh to the streets. They break into an apartment and she feeds Nathan a meal he will never forget. Together they create memories, making up events that they each wish w more...

DRACULA IN PARADISEDRACULA IN PARADISE Comedy By Tom Jordan
15 flexible characters, approx. 6 m, 9 w, doubling possible.
Script: 31 pages.
The Countess Dracula needs money badly, so she's allowing a movie to be filmed at her castle. Everybody's excited by the prospect, especially the kids, Doug and Donna Dracula; the castle muscle men, Wiener and Schnitzel; and the attorneys who more...

T-Shirt PictureGET A CLUE! Comedy By Alex Garnett and Greg Lotze
8 m, 5 w, 1 flexible
Script: 40 pages
In this delirious one-act comedy-murder mystery, evil doctor Gregory Namlive uses a tycoon's questionable death (was it suicide or murder, and if murder, who killed him?) to frame his archnemesis, world-famous detective Shawn Richardson for murder. At the same time, he mea more...

CRUSH!CRUSH! Comedy By Rand Higbee
2 m, 4 w, 2 flexible
Script: 21 pages
Have you ever been in the middle of a boring job and suddenly found yourself fantasizing about that great-looking person across the room? That's what happens to Tom Algren one night in the library when he spies a girl named Rhonda, the woman of his dreams! Laugh with Tom as his daydreams more...

T-Shirt PictureBEST SHOW NEVER SEEN Comedy By Alan Heckner
3 m, 7 w
Script: 28 pages
Summer St. Silver, an ultra-avant-garde director, is asked by Ms. Francis, the overly positive counselor of the middle school, to bring its students together by putting on a play for the state competition. Summer accepts, not knowing the trials and tribulations she will endure. It’s an ultimate clash of more...

T-Shirt PictureMOMENT'S PAUSE Drama By Tim Mogford
4 w
Script: 24 pages.
Ellie is at a party and wanders off to find the bathroom. The room she walks into, however, is not what she expected at all and she soon realizes that she can’t get out. Worse, she is quickly surrounded by three mysterious figures who seem to hold her life in the balance. One condemns her, one defends her, more...

GOOD TROUBLEGOOD TROUBLE Drama By Dolores Klinsky Walker
9 m, 7 w, extras
Script: 25 pages.
Get a glimpse of the Civil Rights Movement in 1965 in Selma, Alabama, through the eyes of young Sandra. This play reveals the realities of segregation that prompted ordinary people to risk their security and sometimes their lives in pursuit of justice. Despite her father's disappro more...

T-Shirt PictureMACBETH - A TALE OF DARKNESS Drama Adapted by Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia
7 m, 4 w, plus ensemble
Script: 36 pages. About 50 minutes.
Here is a retelling of Shakespeare's tale of the decline of an honorable man into darkness, a study of how far an individual is willing to go in the pursuit of power. This adaptation includes new scenes between Lord and Lady Macbeth and uses an i more...

HIGH SCHOOL YEARBROKEHIGH SCHOOL YEARBROKE Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
3 m, 4 w
Script: 23 pages
Join Michelle, Bonnie, and Jake as they bumble through getting the high school yearbook together. As senior editor, Michelle wants "her" book to be perfect. Unfortunately, Bonnie, the copy editor, can't spell, and Jake, the photographer, is a little too laid back for deadlines. A core group of more...

T-Shirt PicturePIRATE PRINCESS Comedy By James Armstrong
2 m, 2 w, 2 flexible
One-act comedy
Script: 32 pages
You might think it's fun to be a princess like Alwida, and to live in a castle. But her castle is so lame! It doesn't even have a moat. Tired of parents who never listen and are always telling her what to do, Alwida runs away from home in search of adventure. Ins more...

GONE TOMORROWGONE TOMORROW Drama By Dan Kehde
1m, 5w, 1 flexible, extras and audience members
Script: 26 pages
Rick, an intelligent ninth grade student athlete, has his first sexual encounter with Amanda, a senior. He has four more relationships before he graduates. By the spring of his senior year, when he tests HIV positive, he has inadvertently exposed more than fifty of h more...

T-Shirt PictureDA VINCI COLD Comedy By Bradley Hayward
4 m, 5 w
Script: 39 pages.
Laura has carefully plotted a day off school in order to find out the meaning of life. Playing hooky, along with her ditzy best friend, she has concocted a foolproof plan to get to the bottom of things. Chaos ensues when her attempts to leave the house are foiled by a lazy cable guy, a rapper who&# more...

T-Shirt PicturePREZ'S NEW CLOTHES Comedy By Stephen Murray
5 m, 10 w, 7 flexible
Script: 36 pages
Here is a hip, contemporary version of "The Emperor's New Clothes," complete with election politics and news media spin. President William Lee is too busy with international politics to worry about whether his striped tie clashes with his plaid pants and argyle socks. His devoted wife more...

FRIENDS OF JULIA DARKFRIENDS OF JULIA DARK Drama By Art C. Lennox
11 parts, approx. 6 m, 5 w
Script: 19 pages
Seven teens are brought to police headquarters to tell what they know of their friend's deadly encounter with drugs and alcohol at a party the night before. Through police questioning and the attorney's defense, we find that while no one gave Julia Dark the drugs, no one stop more...

ADVENTURES OF CYCLONE MALONEADVENTURES OF CYCLONE MALONE Melodrama By Lane Riosley
14 parts. (with doubling 2 m, 1 w, 3 flexible)
Script pages:35
Yazoo! Get ready for one tall tale of adventure as Sheriff Cyclone Malone must protect his town, Yazoo Junction, from evil pirates! The pirate captain, along with two bumbling crewmen, has somehow managed to build a submarine – with torpedoes! – and is sailing on th more...

MIXED NUTSMIXED NUTS Comedy By Corey Sprague
4 m, 1 w, 2 flexible
Script: 16 pages. About 30 minutes.
This play is written in the tradition of the great Marx Brothers movies and plays of the ‘30s and ‘40s. The not-so-famous lawyer Julius P.Milksop (Groucho) is defending Luigi and Adolph (Chico and Harpo) in court. They turn the courtroom into a circus of hilarious gags. more...

T-Shirt PictureREALITY SHOW PRINCE ABSURDLY.. Comedy By Eddie Zipperer
3 m, 4 w, 8 flexible, some doubling possible
Script: 32 pages
Princess Beauteous is the ultimate grand prize winner and gets to marry Prince Absurdly Handsome on his reality TV show. On the journey to the prince’s kingdom, she and her lazy servant, Falada, get hijacked by Repulsa, a hideous, desperate-to-be-famous peasant gir more...

WE NEED A BIGGER STAGEWE NEED A BIGGER STAGE Comedy By Emilio Regina
5 m, 2 w, 6 teen boys (Some male roles can be played by females)
Imagine this: A high school P.E. teacher who does not have a gym facility for his students, and a high school drama teacher who has it all and wants more! Mr. John Brief's proposal to the school administrators for the construction of a gym, and Mr. Lawrence Hac more...

RAVEN'S TALERAVEN'S TALE Folklore By Will Huddleston
5-15 actors.
Unit setting.
Script: 35 pages.
Four spellbinding stories from Native American lore. In the first, the Raven, great trickster bird of all the Northwest Native American tribes, creates the world and the creatures in it. When Man complains about the darkness Raven fills the sky with the sun, the moon and the more...

MAN UNDER HER BEDMAN UNDER HER BED COMEDY By Agnes Wolf
2 m, 4 w
Performance time: About 25 minutes
Clayton Hill is an escaped convict who cherishes his independence. Mabel Pulver is a strong-willed, elderly lady who above all cherishes her independence. And no down-on-his-luck, on-the-run convict is going to make her call for help, which is the first step to a nursing home. Throw more...

T-Shirt PictureLIVE, ONSTAGE! Farce By Pat Cook
4 m, 4 w
Script: 26 pages
Professor Featherflowers comes on stage and begins her lecture, "How to Write a Play." You're snoring already, right? That's exactly what the Stage Manager is worried about when he peeks through the curtain and tells the Professor to "jazz it up," that she needs to open with a joke. The professor more...

T-Shirt PictureSENSE & INSENSIBILITY Drama By Dan Borengasser
3 m, 3 w
Script: 18 pages. Performance time: 25 minutes.
Distraught at the lack of any stimuli, an old man’s five senses are concerned that he’s dying, which means the end for them as well. As a final tribute, Sight, Hearing, Touch, Smell and Taste reminisce about poignant moments they remember from the man’s life. They are more...

T-Shirt PictureDRAMA CLUB Comedy By Anthony Giordano
6 m, 6 w, 1 flexible
Script: 20 pages
As auditions for the school play begin, members of the hear a voice from the back of the auditorium claiming to be the director, Mr. John Shakespeare - a character they made up to get permission to put on the play! The plot is complicated by the unrequited love of several of the student more...

T-Shirt PictureOFFICE ZONE Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
5 m, 5 w
Script: 32 pages
The employees of Sly-Tech Corporation are bored, uninspired, and unhappy with their jobs, which consist of generating reports no one will ever see. They don't know from one day to the next who will even own the company or if they'll have jobs. When a perky young woman fresh out of college i more...

HER STORYHER STORY Drama By Michael Norman Mann
5 m, 9 w, extras, doubling possible
Script: 32 pages
High school students Mike and Shelly are breaking up. Later, Shelly sees Mike at a party with his new girlfriend and between her depression and a few too many drinks, allows herself to be coaxed outside by an unscrupulous guy. Things go too far in the bushes and Shell more...

THREE STRANGERSTHREE STRANGERS Drama Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
from the short story by Thomas Hardy
8 m, 4 w
Script: 27 pages
The clever short story, "The ," by English Victorian writer Thomas Hardy, has been skillfully adapted to a rural Appalachian setting. On a snowy winter's afternoon, a farmer and his wife are celebrating the christening of their infant daughter with f more...

DEVIL & DANIELLE WEBSTERDEVIL & DANIELLE WEBSTER Comedy Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
by Stephen Vincent Benet
5 m, 5 w, 9 or more flexible
Script: 30 pages. About 40 minutes.
Poor Jake Stone is a total loser. When he finally loses the worst job he's ever had, he makes the claim that he would do anything to be a winner. Soon he meets Lucy, a more...

FAIR GAMEFAIR GAME Comedy By Patrick Rainville Dorn
2 m, 6 w, 4 flexible, plus extras
Script: 40 pages.
Performance time: 45 minutes
Three teenagers are lured into malevolent Professor Carny Barker’s Once-in-a-Lifetime Traveling Career Fair. There they are tempted with futures of glamour, riches and power by warped and wicked counterfeit pretenders from the military, me more...

T-Shirt PictureMODEL MILLIONAIRE Classic Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From the tale by Oscar Wilde
3 men, 2 women, 4 flexible
Script: 24 pages
Hugh is in love with Laura and she is in love with him. They want to marry but Laura's father, a gruff and greedy man, won't hear of the marriage of his only daughter to a lowly actor. In order to win the girl he loves, Hugh must come more...

THERE'S NO BUSINESS...THERE'S NO BUSINESS... Comedy By Claudia Haas
14 w
Script: 20 pages
Is it possible to perform a Shakespeare scenefest without male actors, costumes, or scenery? A blizzard has stranded the guys who went to pick up everything for the evening's performance. So now the gals are faced with performing alone on a bare stage. At first nobody thinks they can do it. With su more...

I WANT TO KNOWI WANT TO KNOW Drama By KT Curran
1 m, 3 w, 4 flexible
Script: 27 pages
Annie, almost a teenager, knows there is a secret in her house - something about her older brother, Billie. Nobody will tell her anything, but she knows it's something really, really bad. Four actors/dancers in black perform as a chorus of innuendos which only frightens Annie more. But e more...

T-Shirt PictureMR PATTERSON'S $5000 DOG Comedy By J. Michael Shirley
5 flexible parts
Script: 20 pages
Three students have been hired to take care of Mr. Patterson's purebred dog for the weekend at his estate while he is out of town. The kids, a bumbling lot at best, stick the dog in the yard so they can watch a game on TV and have the stuffy butler serve them lots of snacks. But w more...

T-Shirt PictureFINAL EXAM Drama By Burton Bumgarner
5 m, 6 w
Script: 40 pages
What would you do if you were faced with a former teacher you loathed? Ever-optimistic Tammy Davis gives a party for Florence Furtney, the despot who taught senior English at Central High School for 40 years. Only a few former students show up for the party and then only to see if time has rendered more...

JO WHITE & 7 CAMPERSJO WHITE & 7 CAMPERS Comedy By Craig Sodaro
3 m, 11 w
Script: 20 pages
Take seven inept campers who must win a variety show competition on which the whole camp's reputation is based and what have you got? Instant disaster! Luckily for the campers, Jo White, who would rather sing than whistle while she works, has escaped to their cabin. Hilarity and confusion fol more...

WOULD-BE GENTLEMANWOULD-BE GENTLEMAN Classic Adapted by Paul Caywood
4 m, 4 w, 3 flexible
Script: 28 pages
In this rowdy farce, the ambitious, but foolish, Monsieur Jourdain wants to socialize with the nobility, even though he knows nothing of proper language or social graces. From his highbrow music, dancing, and philosophy teachers to his obsequious tailor, Jourdain makes a fool of himse more...

T-Shirt PictureINVISIBLE J. MICHAEL HESS Drama By James D. Waedekin
3 m, 4 w
Script: 35 pages
Here's a poignant but necessary look at the problems of teenage bullying and suicide. J. Michael is a high school student and aspiring writer. Already dead, he narrates the events that lead up to his suicide. Along the way, we meet Melissa, his unrequited love, and Ms. Dodge, the hopeful Engl more...

T-Shirt PictureFOURTH WALL Comedy By Rebekah M. Ball
2 m, 2 w, 5 flexible
Script: 31 pages
Leaping llamas! "The ," a play within a play, begins as a murder mystery, but the murder victim won't keel over. The playwright forgot to give the characters names, and a rude audience member keeps interrupting the show. Even the ending of the play stinks! Everyone is supposed to d more...

T-Shirt PictureSHAKESPEARE! Classic With Humor By Squire Fridell
12 to 20+ flexible characters
Script: 46
Here's an enjoyable, approachable introduction to William Shakespeare. In Scenes 1 through 4, we discover his world and his realities, his life and his times. In Scenes 5, 6 and 7, we are treated to one abridged scene from "Romeo and Juliet" and two abridged scenes from "A Midsumm more...

T-Shirt PictureNECKLACE Drama Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From the story by Guy de Maupassant
4 m, 4 w, 6 flexible, doubling possible
Script: 33 pages.
Charleston, South Carolina, sometime after the Civil War. A poor woman borrows a diamond from a wealthy friend to wear at a party. She hopes that this outing will change the circumstances of her life and fortune, and that more...

TELL-TALE HEART (BROME)TELL-TALE HEART (BROME) Classic Adapted by Robert Brome
3 m, 3 w
Script: 18 pages
From The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
A psychotic murders an old man and then copes successfully with the village constable, only to be trapped and betrayed by conscience and a twisted mind. Increasing the story's playability is the addition of two nieces of the old man who suspect more...

T-Shirt PictureDELAYED EXPOSITION Comedy By Michael Ferrell
2 m, 1 w
Script: 20 pages
Two class-clown type guys are playing a video basketball game and discussing one of their girlfriends. When one of the guys loses the game, along with his temper, the illusion of the fourth wall gets broken. The two young men, now exposed for being merely actors in a play, argue and debate about what more...

T-Shirt PictureTAKE A CHANCE Drama Drama by Chris Richman
1 m, 1 w, 1 flexible
Director's Survival Notebook
Script: 17pages
As the play opens Rosie, riding a stick horse, and Oliver, pushing a wheelbarrow, are walking around a square stage. The fact that they are in the game of Monopoly should slowly manifest itself in various funny ways, but what starts as a cute comedy tu more...

VALJEANVALJEAN Drama Adapted by Jeffrey M. Watts
6 m, 5 w doubling possible to 4 m, 3 w
Script: 28 pages
This powerful one-act is based on the first pages of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables." The year is 1815 and Jean has been imprisoned nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. Now, after being released, finds it i more...

T-Shirt PictureSHALLOWEEN Comedy By Bryan Starchman
4 m, 4 w, extras
Script: 24 pages
Two unpopular high school students, Sam and Alexandra, find themselves with nothing to do on Halloween, until they're suddenly called to come to a costume party given by the most popular kids. Since they have been invited at the last minute, our unlikely heroes must improvise their costum more...

KEYS, THEKEYS, THE Drama Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
from the tale by W.W. Jacobs
4 m, 2 w
Script: 23 pages
A wife demands that her husband leave the house unless he can get help for his gambling problem. He murders her with a paring knife and tries to hide her body from the maid. While he's still frantically searching for his wife's car keys to dump her body more...

T-Shirt PictureBLIND SPOT Classic Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
Based on the story by H.H. Munro (Saki)
6 m, 5 w, 1 flexible, doubling possible
Script: 34 pages
Wealthy Uncle Lulworth eagerly awaits the next meal from his uncommonly skilled, but foul-tempered cook, Mrs. Sebastian. His niece, Ellen, visits him shortly before dinner after their aunt's funeral. As executor of more...

T-Shirt PictureROMANCERS Comedy Adapted by Jenny Newell Cook & Lorraine Thompson
From Edmond Rostand's "The "
5 m, 4 w, 4 flexible, extras
Script: 42 pages
Dreamy young lovers Lelio and Silvia must keep their love a secret from their fathers, who are fierce rivals. Will a scheme featuring the loveable Arlecchino (whose main occupation is taking money from others) and a q more...

T-Shirt PictureCODE 40: VERONA Drama By Dwayne Yancey
6 m, 2 w, 14 flexible
Script: 44 pages
This play begins at the ending of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" but envisions a modern twist - it's a police drama, in which incompetence and political pressure rule the day. Balthasar and Friar Lawrence still flee the bloody scene in the Capulet family tomb and are apprehended more...

JACK-IN-THE-BOXJACK-IN-THE-BOX Drama By Sara L. Reily
3 m, 2 w
Script: 30 pages
Jarod, a young med student, takes a journey into his own mind after an accident leaves him comatose. He meets a man who will change his life forever - his subconscious. The limited set becomes a universal playing ground where Jarod's subconscious introduces him to various places and people that en more...

BIRTHDAY PARTYBIRTHDAY PARTY Drama By R. James Scott
8 m, 3 w, extras
2 suggested settings, full or partial.
Script: 26 pages
About 30 minutes.
A complex and moving play as a soldier serving overseas "celebrates" a birthday by militarily taking a hill while his twin sister back home celebrates their birthday with the family and her twin's fiancée. The surreal setting and more...

THOUSAND DOLLARSTHOUSAND DOLLARS Drama Adapted by Robert Blaskey
3 m, 3 w, extras
Script: 18 pages
According to his uncle's will, Bob, a carefree young man, must spend $1,000 within 24 hours and give an account of how it was spent to the lawyer. First he almost buys a necklace for his greedy girlfriend, then he almost gives it to a con man. Finally he gives it to his uncle' more...

T-Shirt PictureTHREE BOYS AT A GIRLS' CAMP Comedy By James Brock
3 m, 4 w
Script: 24 pages
Combine three guys on a hiking trip who think they've found their uncle's mountain cabin with three gals who know the cabin is part of their all girls' summer camp and you've got fun and confusion. The teens could get the problem worked out if only the camp counselor, Miss Keegle, would st more...

T-Shirt PictureSURVIVOR, THE Horror By Bryan Starchman
Widely flexible cast, minimum of 7 actors
Script: 34 pages
This is a whirlwind tour of many of the famous and infamous urban legends we’ve grown up hearing and fearing. It then delves deeper, dramatizing in chilling detail, “The Survivor.” The sole survivor of a plane crash, a man has lost his only love, but while the othe more...

T-Shirt PictureSO THE JURY WAS HUNG Comedy By Jack Steele
2 m, 11 w, extras
Script: 21 pages.
Mr. Litel Quirt has difficulties from the start trying to maintain the gavel as the appointed foreman of the jury, composed of 11 others, all women. Each word spoken reminds the ladies of some personal incident that must be told. Tempers rapidly develop into a good old knock-down fight with more...

T-Shirt PictureALADDIN AND HIS SISTER Comedy By Janice Rider
4 m, 2 w, 3 flexible. Some doubling possible.
Script: 38 pages. About 45 minutes.
This play presents a new, fun version of the story of Aladdin! While Aladdin is a lazy, unmotivated young man, his sister, Maliha, is resourceful, courageous, and compassionate, looking after him upon the death of their parents. One day an unscru more...

T-Shirt PictureCOMMENCEMENT Drama By Tim Mogford
4 m, 4 w (all teen roles)
Script: 29 pages
Setting: Living room
It’s Steph’s high school graduation party. Her friends are all around, her family will be back shortly, and she is supposed to be adding the final touches to the house. But this “” is anything but easy or simple. She and her boyfriend Brandon have news that will deva more...

ROOMROOM Drama By J. B. Cheaney
4 m, 4 w
Script: 28 pages
The is a refuge, a rather undefined space with no pressure from the outside world. But how long do you need to feel safe before stepping out? Each character must make that decision himself: Ben, the abused child; Cherelle, acerbic but filled with apathy; Tony, who hides his shortcoming with a smart more...

T-Shirt PictureTARTUFFE IN TEXAS Classic Adapted by Gerald P. Murphy
4 m, 5 w, 3 flexible, doubling possible
Script: 36 pages.
Like Moliere's original “Tartuffe,” a supposed holy man enters the life of affluent but naïve family and almost succeeds in cheating them out of their home. Now set in current-day Dallas, the wily opportunist is finally exposed, but not before a series of more...

T-Shirt PictureRISE OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Horror-Comedy By Sean Abley
4 - 5 m, 4 w
Number of script pages: 40.
Performance time: about 50 minutes.
Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” gets turned upside down in this sequel ... of sorts! Far from the Gothic mood of the original story, this is a broad comedy-mystery with a little bit of the macabre thrown in for more...

FINISFINIS Drama By Gay Janis
2 m, 3 w
Script: 25 pages
An award-winning play about a relevant problem, teen suicide. Without even any skid marks to show he tried to brake his speeding car, the invincible Dave is dead. Although the school play has been cancelled, the other kids try out a few dramatic scenes to see if they can't pull something together. more...

PYRAMUS AND THISBEPYRAMUS AND THISBE Shakespeare Adaptation Adapted by Paul Caywood
6 actors
Simple props and costumes.
Script: 22 pages.
About 30 minutes.
The legend of Pyramus and Thisby is known today primarily because William Shakespeare used it in his comedy "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." As a part of Shakespeare’s play, six workers, sometimes called “mechanicals” or “clowns,” decide to present a more...

NICE DAY IN THE PARKNICE DAY IN THE PARK DRAMA By Ev Miller
1 m, 5 w
Script: 17 pages
Several new cheerleaders are having a picnic in the park to meet each other. There is bitter rivalry between Joyce and Kathleen over a boyfriend. Most of the girls are jealous of Kathleen, since she is rich and gets everything she wants - even down to ousting another girl for the cheerleading position. more...

T-Shirt PictureANTIGONE, 1865 Drama By Mike Willis
5 m, 5 w, extras
Script: 36 pages
The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles is moved to the fictional Fort Thebes at the end of the U.S. Civil War. The new fort commander, Col. Creon, proclaims that one of Antigone's brothers, loyal to the Union, will be buried a hero. Her other brother, loyal to the South, will be left unbu more...

PRINCE EUGENE...CINDER QUEENPRINCE EUGENE...CINDER QUEEN Fairy Tale By Mickey Wright
3 males, 7 females, 1 flexible, extras
Script: 44 pages.
About 1 hour.
Here’s the Cinderella story retold, with a little help from above! Overworked and derided by her stepmother and three stepsisters, kindhearted Cinderella can only dream of attending a ball at the castle. Suddenly her Angel Godmother appears, but she almost more...

TAMING OF THE SHREWTAMING OF THE SHREW Shakespeare Adapted by Paul Caywood
3 m, 2 w, 2 flexible
Script: 20 pages.
An ideal version for introducing younger audiences to one of Shakespeare's best-known comedies. A narrator helps keep the action going and explains some lesser known words. The story, of course, is this: Petruchio, who wants a rich wife, marries Katharina, "the shrew." Then he h more...

IMAGINARY INVALIDIMAGINARY INVALID Classic Adapted by Paul Caywood
From the original play by Moliere
Part of The Half-hour Classics Series
7m, 4w (or with doubling, 4m, 3w)
Script: 30 pages. About 30 mins.
Monsieur Argan is an . Indeed, he is a hypochondriac suffering pains in every part of his body. He wants his daughter, Angelique, to marry the stupid son of a doctor, and not Clea more...

ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BANDADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND Readers Theatre Adapted by Al Rodin
3 m, 2 w
Script: 34 pages.
About 45 minutes.
Helen Stone, a frightened and distraught young woman, has come to Sherlock Holmes for help following the recent death of her twin sister Julia. The young women were living with their stepfather, the austere and heartless widower, Dr. Roylott. They had returned from India to more...

T-Shirt PictureSTRAIGHT SKINNY Drama With Humor By Frank Cerabino
9 m, 9 w
Script: 42 pages
What happens when a sympathetic teacher slips an advance copy of the algebra midterm exam to a struggling student and warns him not to share it with the rest of the class? In two words: cheating scandal! Come sort out the vagaries of honor, friendship and the with the 18 members of Mr. Bolton's more...

GIRLS' ROOMGIRLS' ROOM Drama By Daniel S. Kehde
4 w
Script: 40 pages
This powerful drama takes on the subject of date rape. Four girls meet throughout the school year in the girls bathroom, in the mornings when it is off-limits to students. It's their secret refuge where they share stories, tease and argue with each other, but above all, support one another. When one more...

LITTLE THEATRELITTLE THEATRE Drama By Con Chapman
2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible
Script: 22 pages
Four speech and drama students and their coach are preparing for a tournament. Charles is the team's supremely confident extemporaneous speaker. Patty is the group's entry into the category of original oratory. Cathy is both a debater and, at least in her own mind, a talented actre more...

LADY OR THE TIGER?LADY OR THE TIGER? Drama By Burton Bumgarner
Adapted from the short story by Frank Stockton
2 m, 2 w, 9 or more flexible
Script: 32 pages
A king, known for his cruel nature, finds out that his daughter, the princess, is in love with a common courtier. After much thought he devises a sinister punishment for the young man, as well as for his own daughter. The young man i more...

MONEY MERRY-GO-ROUNDMONEY MERRY-GO-ROUND Comedy Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
based on the short story "Twin Spirits" by W. W. Jacobs
2 m, 2 w
Script: 38 pages
This delicious comedy tells of Gilbert and Addie Cox, whose marriage is based on her money and headed for the rocks. When Gilbert begins to pawn household items to pay for his gambling, Addie confides in her nosy neighbor, Doris. The more...

T-Shirt PictureANNOYING ANGELS Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
Approx. 10 m, 10 w, much doubling possible
Script: 39 pages
Frankie meets his end in an act of wanton cowardice. This offense isn't bad enough to send him to the basement, but he isn't good enough for the attic. He is assigned to Angie the Angel in the "Situation Re-Modification Department." He is given three chanc more...

T-Shirt PictureTESTING 1, 2, 3 Comedy By Robert Mattson
Minimum cast: 1 m, 4 w
Script: 24 pages
The ten-minute play form is more popular than ever, and these 3 lively short plays can be performed together or individually. In "Babysitter Brokerage" (4 w), the bidding war is fast and furious and the contenders are desperate. Who will win the baby-sitting job? In "The Drive-Thru Int more...

T-Shirt PictureSUBURBIA, B.C. Comedy By Lois E. Hobart
4 m, 3 w
Script: 38 pages.
Philip, the Stone Age lord of an elegant cave suite, is something of a Neanderthal when it comes to change. Rumors of a new secret weapon worry him. So does the alarmingly barbaric tribe that has settled across the river who live in boxes made of wooden logs with a panel that opens and closes! Then more...

T-Shirt PictureCASTING JULIET Comedy By Claudia Haas
3 to 5 w
Script: 25 pages
Things are seldom what they seem in the world of theatre. That is never truer than in "The Audition" (3 w). On the morning of a (maybe) life-altering audition, three (maybe) actresses come early to scope out the theatre and immerse themselves into the needs of the (maybe) director. As Phoebe, Celia and more...

RUDE AWAKENINGSRUDE AWAKENINGS Drama By Renee Clark
7 m, 7w, extras
Script: 39 pages
James is a poor student, baffled and envious of other students' wealth, so he and a friend check out a gang. Abby may be flunking English but the temptation to have a date with the coolest guy in school rather than study is too much. Luckily, her friends steer her in the right direction, but, more...

T-Shirt PictureLIBBY PEARCE DRINKS Drama By Tim Mogford
4 w
Script: 20 pages
A teenage girl has been arrested after a car accident and charged with DUI. Four of her peers who were with her earlier that night arrive at the small-town police station. Julie, restlessly belligerent, is frustrated with Lindsay, who sits silent and brooding. Soon, Erin, who is impulsive, and Jen, a natura more...

TRIO OF POE...READERS THEATRETRIO OF POE...READERS THEATRE Readers' Theatre Adapted by Paul Caywood
6 m, 4 w
Simple, open staging with chairs or stools and optional music stands
About 40 minutes
Edgar Allan Poe is called an American literary genius and here are three of his short stories dramatized for Reader's Theatre. “The Masque of the Red Death" is a fantastic tale of how, after half the people of his country more...

MARRIAGE PROPOSALMARRIAGE PROPOSAL Classic Adapted by Paul Caywood
2 m, 1 w
1 interior.
Script: 20 pages. About 30 minutes.
Part of The Half-hour Classics Series. This adaptation of "The " shows how hilarious and ridiculous a situation can become when the excitable and "ailing" Lomov comes to propose to the attractive, but equally excitable, Natalia. They soon enter into rowdy quarr more...

JURY OF HER PEERSJURY OF HER PEERS Drama Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From the short story by Susan Glaspell
4 m, 4 w
Script: 28 pages
A farmer has been found dead and his wife, Minnie, is the prime suspect. The sheriff, a deputy and other men meet at the lonely farmhouse to go over the evidence while two wives gather some clothes and necessities for Minnie, who is in jail. Two neigh more...

TO ABSENT FRIENDSTO ABSENT FRIENDS Drama By Rand Higbee
3 m, 2 w
Script: 20 pages
High school senior Eric Nilsson is a patient in the hospital when, late one night, his three closest friends sneak in to visit. There's Bruce, the class genius; Shawn, the class clown; and the lovely Jenny, who brightens any room she's in. But their jokes and antics do little to lift Eric's more...

T-Shirt PictureANOTHER CHANCE Drama By Martin Follose
5 m, 3 w
Script: 26 pages
"Along with success comes a reputation of wisdom." But all the wisdom that Sally has learned from her school successes don't prepare her when her life seems to fall apart. After she gets an F on a paper, is harassed by the school's popular jock, and learns her parents are getting a divorce, more...

T-Shirt PictureNOT AN AFTER-SCHOOL SPECIAL Dark Comedy By Jeffrey Smart
1 m, 5 w
Script: 20 pages
Are you overdosed on teen problems, dramas about eating disorders, drunk-driving, suicide, etc.? Then this darkly humorous one-act is the antidote. Violet is in the nurse's office after having fainted that morning. One by one her friends visit her and one by one she takes advantage of them by conf more...

MARXISM: GOSPEL...GROUCHOMARXISM: GOSPEL...GROUCHO Drama By David J. LeMaster
2 actors
Open space.
Script: 36 pages. About 1 hour.
David Radman, a young journalist, must write a story about The Vaudeville Theatre, which has recently been designated for destruction. He reluctantly arrives at the building for an appointment with the President of the Theatre Rescue Society, but is instead greeted by more...

T-Shirt PictureECHOES FROM THE TITANIC Drama By Pat Cook
15 m, 7 w, extras, much doubling possible
Script: 35 pages
(2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking.)
The survivors of the Titanic disaster tell you in their own words about their escape to lifeboats in this adaptation of the 1912 Senate hearings, which began just one day after they arrived from their fateful trip. "We more...

T-Shirt PictureMIDNIGHT WAX Mystery / Horror by L. Don Swartz
3 m, 3 w, 6 flexible, extras
Script: 24 pages
Terry Barker, an ambitious newspaper reporter, agrees to spend the night alone in a wax museum to write a Halloween feature. The small, family-owned museum is facing tough competition for tourists dollars from other local attractions, so this publicity is critical. But before the more...

TELL-TALE HEART (SWARTZ)TELL-TALE HEART (SWARTZ) Classic Adapted by L. Don Swartz
4 m, 3 w
Script: 20 pages
Poe's familiar story is updated here, set in the modern American judicial system. As part of a competency hearing to determine the suspect's mental ability to stand trial, the caged murderer faces a panel of legal and psychological experts as his confession is videotaped for all to se more...

T-Shirt PictureROMEO & JULIET-45-MINUTE FORAY Shakespeare Adapted by Rosina Mason Whitfield
Script: 27 pages
“Reading Shakespeare in class is akin to going to a restaurant and eating the menu. Shakespeare is meant to be acted and attended, not just words on a page.” With this belief in mind, playwright Rosina Mason Whitfield created this lively and shortened version of the Bard’s classic. It is special more...

PLACES, PLEASE!PLACES, PLEASE! Contest Drama By Dave Brandl
2 m, 2 w
Single simple set.
About 20 minutes.
John and Sharon begin talking about breaking up except unseen voices feed them lines of opposite intentions. They look around for the intruders. Two people emerge claiming to be the writer and director of this scene. They declare that John and Sharon are ruining this script, whi more...

UNTURNED STONEUNTURNED STONE Drama By Daniel Munson
3 m, 4 w
Script: 27 pages
When Chris, a high school student, isn't able to attend the funeral of his best friend, James, he decides to hold a farewell party at the gravesite. Attending the party with Chris are six of James' closest friends: Katherine, an intelligent but "ditzy" girl; Sarah, the new kid at school; Betty more...

T-Shirt PicturePECOS BILL'S WILD WEST SHOW Comedy By Lane Riosley
3 m, 2 w, 1 puppet.
Bare stage with props.
Script: 34 pages. About 1 hour.
Y’all know of Pecos Bill, the first Texas cowboy! He was raised by coyotes, made the first lasso out of a rattlesnake, broke a cyclone down to a gentle breeze, tamed the longhorn cattle and almost married Slewfoot Sue, who caught his attention by ridi more...

ELEVATOR STORIESELEVATOR STORIES Contest Plays By Neal Barth
Script: 28 pages.
Here are two short, comic plays that have won high school state festivals and competitions:
THIEF BETWEEN THE FLOORS (4 m, 3 w) What would you do after the elevator stopped, the door locked, and someone said "Hands up!"? A thief robs everyone in the elevator, but they talk him out of keeping their money a more...

BLACK CATBLACK CAT Mystery Adapted by Robert Brome
from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
3 m, 3 w
Script: 20 pages
A husband and wife are known for violent quarrelling, especially over their cat. Obsessed, the man tries to kill the animal but accidentally kills his wife. He covers up the murder until the cat's howls are heard from within the cellar wall.
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ANTIGONE BY SOPHOCLESANTIGONE BY SOPHOCLES Classic Adaptation Adapted by Paul Caywood
2 m, 2 w, 2 flexible, 3 narrators
Unit set.
About 20 minutes.
In ancient Thebes, Antigone determines to give a sacred burial to her brother, Polynices, who had died on the battlefield. But her uncle Creon, the tyrant king, forbids her to do so under pain of death, because, he says, Polynices is a traitor. Antigone give more...

T-Shirt PictureSHAKESPEARE'S CLOWNS Comedy By Lane Riosley and Rebecca Byars
2 m, 2 w
Open stage with props.
Script: 40 pages.
This play is a gathering of some of the most clever characters ever written! It provides examples of the clownish, comic characters written by William Shakespeare in many different kinds of productions through the ages. Far from circus clowns in face paint, th more...

SCHARTZ-METTERKLUME METHODSCHARTZ-METTERKLUME METHOD Classic Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From the short story by H.H. Munro (Saki)
With doubling 3 m, 7 w
Script: 30 pages
Here is a delicious tale of conventional manners and expectations turned topsy-turvy. When an upper-class family goes to meet their new English governess, they mistakenly bring home Lady Carlotta. Her eccentricities at first delight th more...

T-Shirt PicturePAPER UMBRELLAS Comedy By Kandie Kelley
7 m, 9 w
Script: 35 pages
Members of the Dream Big Society are meeting in Hawaii's Paradise Hotel for the fourth annual convention, where they can find motivation to achieve their personal dreams, no matter how impossible they may seem. And wild dreams they are: Yvonne wants to be the Queen of England, CJ wants to be a sam more...

T-Shirt PictureLOVE IS NOT AN ANGRY THING Drama By Dan Kehde
2 w
Script: 35 pages
Tina has fallen hard for Greg, an upperclassman, but her best friend, Margie, is worried about the relationship with its subtle and not so subtle bullying. Greg meets Tina after every class, gets her to quit the soccer team because it takes too much time away from him, and basically manipulates her to do exactly more...

NEW MEDICINE SHOWNEW MEDICINE SHOW Contest Play By Richard Johnson
6 m, 9 w
Simple Unit Set (Steps, a platform & four chairs)
About 45 minutes.
An ensemble group of outlandish zany actors seek to answer this question: "Why do we have a social order in which we rank ourselves from the most dominant to the least?" They attempt to do this by acting out both hilarious and serious life situat more...

T-Shirt PictureGIRL WHO FELL IN LOVE-SQUIRREL Drama By Gwen Hansen
3 - 4 m, 2 w
Script: 17 pages
Braz, a soft gray squirrel, easily captures the heart of Ann, a nurturing teenager who wants only to please. “I love you, Ann,” Braz proclaims, “but I need you to do a few things for me. Do you think you could bring me some nuts—cashews are my fav, Ann.” But he really isn’t appreciative of her best ef more...

CINDERELLACINDERELLA Classic Adapted by Vern Adix
5 m, 6 w, 2 flexible.
Several simple settings.
Script: 39 pages. About 55 minutes.
Here’s unconventional, humorous, and easy-to-stage treatment of the famous fairy tale. Rather than one huge ball to find his future Princess, the Prince has met eligible ladies of the kingdom at smaller, separate gatherings called “Choose more...

TWO BY TWO IN LOVETWO BY TWO IN LOVE Comedy/Drama By Jack Nuzum
1m, 1w
Script: 17 pages
One male actor and one female actor each play two parts that's the challenge and fun of this one-act play. All the action takes place in front of a simple park setting. First a teenage boy and girl discuss their young love, he the romantic, she the practical one. She leaves (late for work) and the actr more...

T-Shirt PictureRIP VAN WINKLE Comedy Adapted from Washington Irving's short story
By Patrick Rainville Dorn
Widely flexible cast, minimum of 12.
Approx. 4 m, 3 w, plus 5-23 flexible, extras, doubling possible.
Script: 32 pages.
No one will be caught napping as Washington Irving's supernatural tale comes to vibrant life in this action-packed comedy that combines faithful more...

T-Shirt PictureFISH AND THE RING Fairy Tale Adapted by Gerald P. Murphy
From the English fairy tale
3 m, 8 w, 5 flexible, doubling possible
Script: 27 pages
Baroness Agatha, a rich and powerful noblewoman, learns from a hermit that her newborn son, Alex, will marry Marie, a mere peasant's daughter. The Baroness will have none of this! She intends to kill her, but the baby somehow su more...

CARLCARL Drama By E. Jack Williams
5 m, 4 w, extras if desired.
Simple setting.
Script: 24 pages. About 35 minutes.
Inspired by a true story, "" tells of a young man's experience with being teased and bullied throughout school. The play opens with a 10-year reunion, then flashes back to his high school days, episodes in the lunchroom and classroom. We ev more...

T-Shirt PictureFUNSUCKER Comedy By Christopher Landrigan
Approximately 7 m, 9 w, 4 flexible
Script: 32 pages.
Fed up with the unruliness of his school, hard-nosed Principal Wolfenstein hires Janitor Patton and his top-notch cleaning crew to fix the problem. But it’s not enough against Bobby Franko, leader of the pranksters for all of his six years of high school, and his ma more...

IN THE PARKIN THE PARK Comedy By Neal Barth
3 m, 3 w, 3 flexible
Park bench setting.
Number of Script pages: 20.
Performance Time: About 30 minutes.
What fun jogging can be! Think of all the people you can meet! Here's a spoof on America's biggest health habit. Jill and Nathan have stopped jogging for a moment for him to gasp for breath. Soon Jill is off again w more...

T-Shirt PictureLAST STOP FOR THE A-TRAIN Drama By Jeffrey Strausser
4 m, 3 w, 1 flexible
Script: 20 pages
Al Trainor hates selling cars. The former high school football star can only dream about what might have been – an exciting college football stint filled with glory and girls, and then on to a lucrative professional career. Unfortunately, a fateful knee injury ended his dream. And fate more...

DOCTOR FRANK'N STYNEDOCTOR FRANK'N STYNE Comedy By Larry Hillhouse
Flexible cast, approx. 4 m, 4 w, 3 flexible
Script: 39 pages.
Franklin Kenneth Styne, or F.K. as he’s called, inherits an old castle from a distant relative. Upon arriving, he finds that he also inherited the Styne Castle staff, consisting of Egor, a hunchback experimenter who converses with a portrait, and Hilda, the no-nons more...

T-Shirt PictureADAGIO...DEATH OF LOVE Drama By Reid Conrad
5-6 m, 4 w, optional extras
Script: 28 pages
The Imarovas were once the royal family and held sway over the social and political arenas of the country. But a new regime gained power and the Imarova children became captives in their own home. They live under a repressive guard, yet each sibling remembers or knows a different kind more...

ROSE IN ITS TIMEROSE IN ITS TIME Drama By Jeffrey M. Watts
3 m, 3 w, extras, doubling possible
Script: 32 pages
Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed during the Battle at Gettysburg. A stray bullet came though the door of her sister's home and struck Jennie while she was kneading dough to feed the Union soldiers. "A " is a moving portrait of this spirited young woman who lov more...

HONORABLE MENTIONHONORABLE MENTION Drama By E. D. Schell
2 m, 4 w, 3 extras
Script: 16 pages
Average high school student Medley can't keep up with her older sister, Monica, a cheerleader with straight A's and Kevin, a football star and class officer, as her boyfriend. Even Medley's award in an essay contest seems small potatoes next to Monica's latest achievements. B more...

T-Shirt PictureGRAND ADVENTURES-PIP & MIMSY! Absurdist comedy By Jack Sale
5 m, 4 w, 1 flexible
Script: 36 pages.
Performance time: About an hour.
Follow the adventures of two Victorian street urchins—annoyingly enthusiastic and melodramatic—who still await with joy the return of their missing father after many years. As they gratefully and cheerfully accept their circumstances of foraging and freezing more...

HIGHLAND REQUIEMHIGHLAND REQUIEM Drama By R. James Scott
5 m, 4 w, 1 flexible, extras
Script: 31 pages.
In the spring of 1609, two Scottish clans, the McLorens and the McGreggors, come together for an arranged marriage. The young bridegroom, William McGreggor, arrives early and by chance meets his bride-to-be at the church. Heather McLoren does not recognize him for who he is, and more...

FIRST COMES LOVEFIRST COMES LOVE Drama By Regina M. Ballard
3 m, 4 w, extras
Script: 20 pages
Jenny, a high school student, is on cloud nine: Dave Stone has asked her to the prom. Her girlfriends are all sexually active and have been pressuring Jenny to change her old-fashioned views on premarital sex. Then, on the day before the prom, Jenny's best friend, Michelle, tearful more...

SILENT WARSILENT WAR Readers' Theatre By Clete Melick
4 m, 2 w
Script: 20 pages. About 30 minutes.
Here is a perfect play to introduce children to the Underground Railroad. Designed as a Reader’s Theatre, "The " is a story of three slaves – and eight little mice – who escape to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Uncle Amos, Belle, and Buck Henry, all slaves on a Kentucky plan more...

SECOND STAINSECOND STAIN Readers Theatre Adapted by Al Rodin
4 m, 2 w
Script: 32 pages. About 45 minutes.
Lord Bellinger and the Right Honorable Trelawney Hope, Secretary for European Affairs, visit Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker street to have him find a missing document, which, if published, could lead to war. It had been kept in a dispatch box at the Secretary's home. Holmes more...

LESSON IN REVENGELESSON IN REVENGE Mystery By Richard Booth
4 w
High school students Jolene, Amber and Mary are in a graveyard at midnight as part of their senior dare. When Jolene offers booze to the other two, they start discussing the car crash a year ago which killed their friend, Jennifer. Jolene was with Jennifer, who was supposedly drinking and driving. But when Jennifer' more...

T-Shirt PictureRAPPIN'STILTSKIN Comedy By Donna Wilson
4 main characters, additional cast of 13 or more.
Script: 24 pages.
In this new version of the fairy tale, all the characters are likable - the greedy king is now a kind ruler looking for money to save endangered species and the passive young woman who must spin straw into gold is resourceful and self-reliant. Even the funny more...

SCANDAL IN BOHEMIASCANDAL IN BOHEMIA Readers Theatre Adapted by Al Rodin
5 M, 1 W
Script: 28 pages. About 35 minutes.
To save his crown, a distraught King of Bohemia comes incognito to 221B Baker Street to seek the help of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes quickly sees through the man's disguise. The throne is threatened by a photograph of the King and Irene Adler taken five years previously. She i more...

RED-HEADED LEAGUE, THERED-HEADED LEAGUE, THE Reader's Theatre
Adapted by Al Rodin
7 m
Script: 32 pages. About 45 minutes.
Jabez Wilson is a pawnbroker whose store is located on Coburg Square next to a bank. He consults Sherlock Holmes about the "League of Red-Headed Men." He had been told by his employee, Vincent Spaulding, that it is a group established by a red-headed American millionaire, now dead, more...

LISTEN TO THE SNOWLISTEN TO THE SNOW Drama By Max C. Golightly
1 m, 2 w
One composite interior.
Script: 33 pages.
About 40 minutes.
This play deals with the heartache and the trauma of being old, being alone in the world and forgotten. Mrs. Delmonico, a former actress, lives in a tenement building in New York. She exists mostly in her imagination and takes her torment out on her ne more...

T-Shirt PictureROMAN FEVER Classic Adapted Renee Rebman
from the story by Edith Wharton
2 m, 7 w, doubling possible
Script: 23 pages
A period piece set in the 1920s, this play provides an opportunity for two old friends, Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade, to sit in an outdoor cafe in Rome and reminisce about the past. Now both widowed, the women begin to examine their strangely inter more...

THEA'S SECRETTHEA'S SECRET Drama By KT Curran
2 w
Script: 24 pages
Regina, who is slightly overweight, wonders how her pretty and popular cousin Thea can keep her figure with all the junk food she eats. She eats so much, in fact, she even stole money from Regina to buy more goodies, hiding the food to eat later alone. But when Regina notes Thea's frequent trips to the bat more...

T-Shirt PictureCON, THE Horror By Bryan Starchman
Widely flexible cast, minimum of 13 actors
Script: 32 pages
Here are three stories to make your skin crawl and your blood turn cold. “On Second Hand” features a young man who has a close call with death and suddenly his life is literally flashing before his eyes. “Who’s Calling?” shows what can happen when a seemingly harml more...

T-Shirt PictureMACHINATIONS Farce By Reid Conrad
Approx. 4 m, 2 w, 20 flexible.
Script: 24 pages.
The game of “Machine” is a staple of drama classes, but in this 1950s sci-fi flavored one act the Machine, played by a group of actors, becomes a character itself. Professor Chester Pochesnik has been laboring over his Machine in the lab. He and Team Leader Osten are happy to announ more...

LIFE REFRAINSLIFE REFRAINS Drama By Renee Rebman
2 m, 4 w
Script:15 pages
Ryan's drinking at the school dance leads to a fatal car accident, leaving his family and friends to deal with the aftermath. His sister, Megan, is flooded with anger and grief, lashing out at everyone. She places blame for Ryan's death on herself and others. Ryan's girlfriend, Pam, sugges more...

T-Shirt PictureACTOR'S NIGHTMARE, THE Comedy By Alan Heckner
Cast: Flexible from 5 m, 6 w, to as many as 8 m and 14 w, not including extras.
Script: 31 pages.
The title says it all, and every actor and actress who has ever graced the stage knows it all too well. Bobby, Danni, and Christina are three high school students who share the same bad dreams of forgetting their lines, blanking on more...

T-Shirt PictureLAST SHOT Drama By James Brady
2 m, 1 w
Script: 28 pages
It's the last night of the recruiting season and Coach Montgomery, trying to save his job, wants Dalton Garrison to sign a letter of intent to his college. When the coach can't get a commitment from the young athlete, he applies a full court press and wins Dalton's mother. However, Dalton c more...

MAKING THE GRADEMAKING THE GRADE Drama By James Brady
1 m, 2 w
Script: 28 pages
Katherine Bourgeois, a senior at college, has flunked algebra, a course she needs to graduate. She complains to Dr. Hoffmann, the chairwoman of the math department, who tells Mr. O'Leary, Katherine's instructor, to go over the final exam and give her another test. Mr. O'Leary tries to do t more...

T-Shirt PictureDARK TOWER, THE Drama Adapted By Bobby Keniston
from Robert Browning's poem and Thornton Wilder’s playlet,
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
5 m, 7 w, or with doubling 5 m, 4 w
Script: 30 pages.
Roland, a warrior and perhaps the son of a king, has reached the Dark Tower. After years of eschewing death, he seeks nothing but sweet release after lifetimes of more...

T-Shirt PictureSCREENAGERS Comedy By Jim and Jane Jeffries
10 m, 9 w, 2 flexible
Script: 26 pages. About 30 minutes.
In this fast-paced, technology-saturated world, can teenagers really survive without laptops, i-pads, cell phones and other mobile devices? Has high-speeding texting replaced face-to-face communication? Do apps substitute for thoughtful conversation? From breaking more...

SCARS & STRIPESSCARS & STRIPES Drama By Thomas Cadwaleder Jones
1 m, 1 w
Number of script pages: 47
Two teenagers, an African-American urban girl and a white rural boy, confront their racial prejudices when they meet at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Looking for clues into their fathers' pasts, they discover more about themselves and each other and are c more...

FROZEN WAFFLES ON...INTERSTATEFROZEN WAFFLES ON...INTERSTATE DRAMA By Richard T. Young
2 m, 2 w
Script: 19 pages.
About 30 minutes.
A lady truck driver picks up a blind Vietnam vet. Both their lives seem to be in a holding pattern and they challenge each other to make changes.
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FLAMBOYANT MAN IN THE RAINFLAMBOYANT MAN IN THE RAIN DRAMA By Richard T. Young
2 m, 2 w
Script: 20 pages.
About 30 minutes.
A cartoon show writer who is getting bad reviews and an about-to-be-fired hair dresser land in the same taxi cab in the middle of a rain storm. After initial-humorous-hostilities toward each other they realize their plights may have much in common.
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HEAVEN ONLY KNOWSHEAVEN ONLY KNOWS Comedy By Corey Sprague
2 m, 1 w.
One simple set.
Script: 14 pages.
A messenger of the Devil is sent to destroy the world but when he reaches Earth, he encounters a girl with ideas and problems of her own. Then we find out that the girl has been sent by ... you know who! One easy set.
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I KNOW THIS FOR SUREI KNOW THIS FOR SURE Drama By Peggy Welch Mershon
4 w
Script: 16 pages
Sarah, a student at a girls' prep school, isn't going home for Christmas. Her boyfriend has dumped her, her grades have bombed, and being at home with her alcoholic stepfather is unendurable. Sarah's friends try to talk her into leaving with them, but Sarah has a different trip in mind, a more...

T-Shirt PictureIPHIGENIA AT AULIS Tragedy Adapted by Philip Lerman
From the classic by Euripides
4 m, 5 w
Script: 26 pages.
The scene is the port city of Aulis, where the Grecian army waits to embark on the conquest of Troy. The army’s commander, Agamemnon, has been forced to offer his young daughter, Iphigenia, as a martyr to ensure victory in the coming war. Valiant efforts by more...

DOOR BANGDOOR BANG Comedy By Leslie Hewitt
5 flexible parts
Script: 16 pages
Ever worry about leaving your car in a parking lot? Then here's the play for you! Beamer, who owns a nice car, is tired of being pushed about by fate and circumstance. When Ford accidentally bumps Beamer's nice car door with his not-so-nice car door, followed by the grocery store cl more...

GREATEST GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAMGREATEST GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM Comedy / Drama By Robert Nersesian
1 m, 11 w
Script: 36 pages
A hilarious calisthenics session, funny prayers to the Goddess of Softball, and a mimed ball game that's as exciting as any real one provide the comedy in this poignant one-act. Al's Pizza Pounders haven't won a game all season and it doesn't help when Dabney is taunted about her "s more...

T-Shirt PictureNIGHTMARE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE Drama The Nightmare of Frankenstein
Adapted by Edward J. Walsh
and Robert Thomas Noll
from the novel by Mary Shelley
Cast: 2 m, 2 w, 4 flexible
Script: 34 pages
The House of Frankenstein is in turmoil. Victor Frankenstein, engaged to a woman he deeply loves, has fallen into a fit of despair. The cause of Victor’s behavior is, in fact, a Crea more...

T-Shirt PictureFRANKENSTEIN UNPLUGGED Drama Adapted by Jonathan Yukich
Based on the novel by Mary Shelley
6 m, 3 w, 4 flexible (or with doubling 2 m, 1 w)
Script: 40 pages. About 45 minutes.
Jonathan Yukich’s "" offers a faithful stage retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel. We meet Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with finding the secret to recreating life. Of cours more...

T-Shirt PictureSOLDIERS YOUNG AND BRAVE Drama By Lorraine Thompson
Cast: With doubling, 10 m, 8 w, many extras.
Script: 38 pages.
Performance time with songs about an hour.
The Civil War was unlike any other war our country has ever endured. It not only severed our nation, it severed our nation’s families. Husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters were torn apart by poli more...

MOTHER NATURE'S REVENGEMOTHER NATURE'S REVENGE Comedy By Rob Frankel
Flexible cast of about 15. Doubling possible, extras if desired.
Script: 35 pages.
40 minutes, can be shortened.
Mark Polluter is an environmental disaster, and Mother Nature's overseer, a former school teacher, plans a little revenge. With a smile on her face, she turns him into a tree, then a fish, and finally a bird. I more...

T-Shirt PictureFOOTBALL CHEER Drama By Tricia Williams
4 m, 4 w
Script: 19 pages.
Here is a slice of life peek into the locker room of both the players and the cheerleaders on game day at a typical high school. From Phil, the gladiator on a mission, to little Helena who just wants a hamburger, each team member plays an important piece of the mosaic. With both comic hijinks to ser more...

T-Shirt PictureSHAKESPEARE ON TRIAL Drama By Anthony Giordano
Approx. 9 m, 6 w, 3 flexible, extras which can be audience members
Script: 42 pages. About 50 minutes.
With graduation fast approaching, two groups of students of Bellefonte High confront each other in an attempt to influence the next year’s curriculum of the school. With recollections of past bullying, revealed secret lives, more...

BEST FOOT FORWARDBEST FOOT FORWARD Comedy By Daniel T. Roberts
4 m, 3 w, 1 flexible
Script: 24 pages
In this audience-pleasing comedy, Aristotle, the dentist's son, and Jennifer, the habitual screwup, are fighting over the last copy of a self-help book that they are sure contains all the answers to their problems. He just knows "Success in Excess" will help him avoid a bleak future more...

RING AROUND THE CORPSERING AROUND THE CORPSE Mystery By R.A. Anderson and E. Marston
6 m , 5 w
Script: 23 pages
Dr. Randall is constructing a whodunit murder plot with the help of the gardener, the cook, and the butler, all necessary characters in a good mystery. Dr. Randall is murdered not once, but in four different ways. The why, how and wherefore is put on the broad shoulders of detect more...

WHO'S ACCUSED?WHO'S ACCUSED? Comedy By J. Michael Shirley
4 m, 4 w, 2 flexible parts and extras
Script: 20 pages
Here's a comedy about good-ol-boy law and (dis)order in the deep South! As various denizens of Redwine County testify, we find out an entire murder trial is based on the "facts" that the local undertaker needs some business and the sheriff's cleaning lady thi more...

IF YOU SEE AMANDAIF YOU SEE AMANDA Drama By Mickey Wright
6 m, 7 w, optional extras
Several partial settings or a unit set
45 - 50 minutes.
They say Amanda's back. They say she's crazier than ever. And they say Debbie's her next victim. Caught in a whirlwind of gossip Debbie is swept away from her friend Amanda and from her boyfriend Nathan. Valley High School panics more...

T-Shirt PictureTROJAN WOMEN, THE Tragedy Adapted by Philip Lerman
From the classic by Euripides
3 m, 6 w, some doubling possible
Script: 20 pages
Troy lies in ruins after its defeat by the Grecian army. All the men have been killed, and the women wait to be transported to Greece, as slaves or concubines. Hecuba, Troy’s former queen, learns the disposition of her surviving family more...

SHELBY'S SONGSHELBY'S SONG Drama By Renee Rebman
3 m, 3 w
Script: 16 pages
Shelby has been feeling depressed and seeing her grandmother in constant pain has upset her even more. Finally, she decides to steal two bottles of her grandmother's pain pills and commit suicide. But Grandma finds the pills and confronts Shelby - admitting that her age and illness have caused her more...

FAUX PAFAUX PA Comedy By Jeffrey Watts
6 m, 4 w, 4 flexible, extras,
doubling possible
Script:40 pages. About an hour.
Mild-mannered suburbanite Rob Clark is shocked when Eugene, an unlikely angel, tells him that he is going to have a baby. Rob and his wife, Cindy, have wanted a child, but they never expected Rob to be the one to get pregnant! Their family physi more...

BREAKBREAK Drama By Monique Brown
4 m, 2 w
Script: 28 pages
Kyle, William, Natalie, and Richard are not likely friends. With such different backgrounds, they never would have met outside of the subway station. But when their train becomes stalled unexpectedly, they have no choice but to turn to one another. Personalities clash and tensions rise. In the midst more...

DORM ROOM SUPERMODELSDORM ROOM SUPERMODELS Comedy By Lila Donnolo
1 m, 2 w
Script:30 pages
Deanna and Marley, friends and college freshmen psych majors, have been dabbling in the fine art of procrastination, and now they have less than an hour to conjure up their notion of female perfection for a class assignment. Supermodels, celebrities, and art history are invoked as they construct a collage more...

T-Shirt PictureSIEGE OF ROOM 304 Drama By Daniel S. Kehde
3 m, 11 w
Script: 44 pages
What happens when a high schooler brings a pistol to biology class? In this tense drama, Wesley, a 17-year-old boy with a handgun, holds 13 of his fellow students as voluntary hostages as he tries to come to grips with the events that brought him there. In the 24 hours that follow, the tension of t more...

SIDELINESSIDELINES Comedy By Burton Bumgarner
5 m, 7 w
Script: 32 pages
Dr. Jennings has always dreamed of life as a country doctor, but life in a town without an espresso machine horrifies his family. These tensions peak when the family attends the local 4th of July parade, a staple of small town life. Viewing the "parade" from curbside as it passes, the family lists more...

SQUEAK!SQUEAK! Comedy By Aleksas A. Barauskas
1 m, 2 w, 3 flexible. Doubling possible.
Script: 19 pages
Adam, a teenager, is hearing squeaks in the walls of his room, so much squeaking, in fact, he's losing sleep. How can he get rid of the problem? He consults with two rats who advise him to use everything from a chain saw to a blow-up doll dressed to look like more...

T-Shirt PictureMATTER OF HONOR Drama By Ray Hamby
3 m, 4 w
Script: 29 pages
A Confederate soldier, transporting a Yankee prisoner, stops off at his fiancee's home in hopes of arranging a quick wedding. But the women of the home fall under the spell of the prisoner. Is the Yankee lying when he tells the fiancee, Lisbeth, he has fallen in love with her? The would-be groom cha more...

SHAKESPEARE IN TIMESHAKESPEARE IN TIME Comedy By Christina Hamlett
2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible, doubling possible
Script: 26 pages
In spite of Dr. Winona Smedlap's repeated warnings to her team of lab assistants not to go near the Time Mobile until it was "totally, thoroughly, and undeniably ready," she forgot to mention that it also applied to responding to strange noises coming from inside more...

KANGAROO COURTKANGAROO COURT Drama By Nicholas Checker
2 m, 3 w, 3 flexible, extras
Script: 32 pages
Hunting, animal testing, tender veal? In this surreal satire, two ordinary people are forced to represent "humanity" before a hooded judge and animal court. In a tongue-in-cheek manner, the Animal Kingdom expresses its displeasure with the callous attitudes displayed too often b more...

NAZNAZ Mystery By Sharon Dunn
4 m, 3 w
Script: 23 pages. About 30 minutes.
Investigator Keith Schwartz has been sent to look into the alleged suicide of Mr. areth, a patient at the Fallen Oaks Correctional Facility for the Criminally Insane. But there are complications: The body has disappeared from the morgue, staff and patients are hiding something, and ev more...

DARLA'S DREAMDARLA'S DREAM Comedy By J. Robert Wilkins
2 m, 6 w, 2 flexible
Script: 34 pages
UIL approved effective August 2011
Welcome to Darla's dream world. On this particular night, Darla and her best friend Maxine, set off to find prom dresses, dates and a limo. They escape Darla's mother, who has selected the world's ugliest dress for her daughter, meet a ho more...

GOD-GIVEN TALENTGOD-GIVEN TALENT Comedy By Alysia Kozbial
5 m, 3 w, extras
Script: 22 pages
Marcus lives in an exciting time for theatre: the very beginning in Ancient Greece. He wants to become a great actor and impress everyone at the Festival of Dionysus, especially the lovely maiden Chara. Unfortunately, he can't act, but the gods Dionysus and Apollo see this and decide to h more...

TURNAROUNDTURNAROUND Drama Drama by Clem Martini and Cheryl Foggo
2 m, 2 w
A powerful drama about the legacy of betrayal, abandonment and abuse. Lucy, the alcoholic mother of Megan, has been in and out of jail much of her life, abandoning her daughter many times. Now she has gotten help and turned her life around, and wants the twelve-year-old Megan to stay with her and more...

UNTOLD SECRETUNTOLD SECRET Drama By Renee Rebman
1 m, 4 w
Script:15 pages
Mandy James is harboring a dark secret that is affecting her relationships with her best friend, her boyfriend, and her soon-to-be-remarried mother. Her frustration and fear are pushing her close to a breakdown. Finally, a conflict between Mandy and her mother's fiance Richard causes Mandy to confes more...

T-Shirt PictureSUNDAY TEA WITH DESIREE Drama By Billy St. John
2 m, 6 w
Script: 31 pages
On a sunny summer afternoon on the lawn of a country estate, Desiree and her guests gather for tea. Though the conversation is witty and sophisticated, one senses that underneath all the frivolity, something is wrong -- but what? What subjects has the new maid been instructed to avoid? What is impl more...

T-Shirt PictureSTONE NAKED WOMAN Comedy Comedy by Kay Rhoads
11 m, 9 w, 1 flexible, doubling possible
Script: 32 pages
Friendships are tried, prejudices are revealed, and self-interest is (dare it be said) exposed in this fast-moving comedy! A small Iowa town deals with the weighty issue of whether a stone statue violates the morals ordinance. Chorlis Deets, longtime resident of Lamb more...

T-Shirt PictureSECRET IDENTITY: Adventure... Comedy By Will Ledesma
3 m, 3 w, 1 voice
Script: 36 pages.
Friendship, adventure, integrity, an evil mime, a mysterious butler, stolen dinosaur bones, a man with a mailbox on his head—it’s all just a part of the fun in this one act. Follow the heroic adventures of Princess Mystic Starfish, a charming and unconventional superheroine who battles her ene more...

T-Shirt PictureTOBERMORY Classic Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
From the short story by H.H. Munro (Saki)
4 m, 6 w, 1 flexible
Script: 36 pages
When an old friend invites Jake, a science writer for a newspaper, to spend a weekend at a gathering of prize-winning scientists, he sees a way to write an impressive article and move on to being a sports writer, his real goal. At the gat more...

T-Shirt PictureMY GIRLFRIEND'S STUPID TALKING Comedy By Dwayne Yancey
3 m, 1 w, 3 flexible, extras
(With doubling: 2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible, extras)
Script: 31 pages
Erin buys a talking parrot which turns out to be under a voodoo curse. The troublesome parrot soon causes a rift between the Erin and her boyfriend, Jeremy, because she blames him for all the evil pranks the bird is pulling. The parrot more...

T-Shirt PictureSIXTEEN SHAMBLES Comedy By Bradley Hayward
2 m, 4 w, 7 flexible
Script: 30 pages
Janet is about to celebrate her sweet sixteenth birthday, but little does she know it's going to be the worst day of her life. Things start spiraling downward from the moment she wakes up and gets toothpaste all over her shirt. This sets off a chain reaction of misfortune as she faces more...

T-Shirt PictureMISS NIGHTINGALE Classic Dramatized by Walt Vail
1 w, 6 flexible
Script: 31 pages
The Empress of China learns about a wonderful bird in her garden and demands the bird perform that evening in court. When appears, everyone is disappointed by her drab, gray appearance. However, she makes up for it with her beautiful birdsong which even moves the Empress to tears. She more...

T-Shirt PictureCOMFORT'S BROKEN LIGHT Drama By Aris Bremer
1 m, 3 w
Script: 32 pages
After a long absence, Lara has come back to her parents' home to celebrate her father Martin's 60th birthday. She's dismayed to find how forgetful he is and shocked when he defaces a new photo she has brought of her young son. Lara's mother, Ali, tries to smooth over the confusion and aw more...

T-Shirt PictureLUNCH Comedy Comedy by Burton Bumgarner
4 m, 5 w
Script: 28 pages
George and Dana each had such high hopes for their high school popularity and love life back when they were in junior high. But the reality is they now have their stolen every day and are subjected to catty comments by the sports jocks and cheerleaders. Laugh and cheer as George and Dana& more...

HAND, THEHAND, THE Drama Adapted by Burton Bumgarner
from the tale by Guy de Maupassant
3 m, 3 w, 4 extras
Script: 20 pages
An arrogant hunter shocks his dinner guests by showing them his prized trophy, a human hand chained to a board and mounted on the wall of his library. The next morning the hunter's mother demands he make amends to the guests and remove the ha more...

BROTHERSBROTHERS Drama By R. James Scott
2 m, 1 w, 5 or more extras as non-speaking soldiers
Setting: One outdoor set.
Script: 24 pages. Performance time: 30 minutes.
Following the end of the Civil War, Jed and Ben have arrived outside their home in northern Pennsylvania after having traveled on foot for nearly a thousand miles. The younger brother, Ben, espoused more...

FISHIN'FISHIN' Drama By Mitch Hogue
2 m
Simple exterior setting.
Script: 14 pages. About 20 minutes.
Frank, the sheriff of an unnamed county in the South, is fly fishing patiently at the local watering hole. After a moment, Randy, an old acquaintance from the area, joins him. Frank is a man in his mid to late thirties, stout, stoic. There is a menacing patience more...

EMPERORS' NEW CLOTHESEMPERORS' NEW CLOTHES Fairy Tale By Vern Adix
7 m, 7 w.
Script: 52 pages. About 1 hour.
This play is a new twist on the old-fashioned fairy tale. Two emperors from tiny, neighboring kingdoms are good friends but compete in wearing the latest fashions. Because they each continually want new, sumptuous wardrobes, their kingdoms are broke! Even their wives have to resort to doin more...

EL BULLYEL BULLY Morality Drama By Joe Rosenberg
Cast of 7 principals and extras.
Simple space setting.
Script: 36 pages. About 40 minutes.
In school, an English-speaking bully falls head over heels in love for a Hispanic girl. All goes well until he becomes victimized by language, because he doesn't know that "prima" in Spanish means "cousin." (And also because of hi more...

ROSE BY ANY OTHER COLORROSE BY ANY OTHER COLOR Drama By David Muschell
2 m, 3 w
About 30 minutes.
High school seniors Tim and Sylvia are in love. However, one is African-American, and one is white, and this football star and cheerleader have been hiding their relationship. They go to their favorite English teacher for advice. But do they really want her advice, or just her encouragement? In a more...

CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTONCHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON Readers Theatre Adapted by Al Rodin
4 m, 3 w.
Script: 19 pages.
About 30 minutes.
is a blackmailer who preys on women who have at times slipped into indiscretions. Thus Lady Eva Blackwell wrote several imprudent letters to a young squire, which Milverton now possesses, and threatens to release them to her future husband if she does not give him 7,000 pound more...

WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHINGWOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING Comedy By Tambra Kay Petrie
3 m, 5 w
Script: 36 pages
Frisbee Thorne, a young teenager, has a crush on his neighbor, Jill, and hates to see where party-girl Courtney is leading her. As Jill is drawn into Courtney's web of deceit, she starts lying to her parents and friends, turning into the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. Along the way s more...

ALEXANDER...UNITED SNAKESALEXANDER...UNITED SNAKES Tolerance Message By Donald Lewis
1 m, 1 boy 6 flexible.
One simple setting.
Script: 48 pages
Homeless Alexander and his dad board a boxcar and head west, in search of a new life. Unfortunately, they share the boxcar with a group of snakes on their way to the United Snakes of America Convention, organized to develop a national strategy for survival. Humans an more...

ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MENADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN Classic Adapted by Al Rodin
7 m, 2 w
3 simple settings or unit set.
Script: 35 pages. About 45 minutes.
Hilton Cubitt, a squire, has come to Sherlock Holmes for help. Cubitt has found several messages of coded letters drawn in the form of dancing men, undecipherable to him but extremely disturbing to his American wife, Elsie. With his typical brillia more...

JACK'S ADV. WITH...KING'S GIRLJACK'S ADV. WITH...KING'S GIRL FOLK TALE By R. Rex Stephenson
Unit or space setting.
Flexible cast from 10 - 24 actors.
About 45 minutes.
This play opens when a woman who is collecting mountain folktales asks the Gentry family to tell her one. But they do better than that! They act out for her the story of "Jack and the King's Girl." When a Princess has a "witchin'" put on h more...

T-Shirt PictureTWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Shakespeare Adapted By Tom Smith
4 m, 3 w, 7 flexible parts, some doubling possible
Script: 42 pages.
Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy follows the adventures of best friends Valentine and Proteus and the intrigues that ensue when Proteus, engaged to Julia, falls in love with Valentine's beloved, Julia. Reduced from the original 2 ½ hours to 45 more...

ROLLING STOPROLLING STOP Drama By Barton Bishop
2 m, 1 w, 1 extra
Script: 30 pages
Alan and Katie were best friends when they were younger, but high school came along and changed all of that. Now it is their senior year, and Alan is having difficulties letting go, moving on, and finding confidence within himself. Reacting to a note he found of Katie's, Alan decided it w more...

MARTIN AND MALCOLM: HOW LONGMARTIN AND MALCOLM: HOW LONG Drama by Tom Quinn
2 m 2 f (can be expanded)
Script: 30 pages. Ideal for Black History month observances.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are forever linked in the history of the Civil Rights movement. This play featuring four actors playing different roles from history and present day examines the legacy of these two men and attempts to judge where more...

GREEKS... LOVE... DISASTERSGREEKS... LOVE... DISASTERS Farce By Jerome McDonough.
6 m, 7 w, 1 to 3 flexible
1 interior.
Script: 42 pages. About 40 minutes.
This play explores all kinds of love. Too bad it isn't exactly a love story. OK, it's a kind of a love story. But it's more a story of good intentions falling flat time after time. There are these nice girls, the Alpha Omegas, who e more...

WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BEWHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE Shakespeare Adapted by Anthony Powell
2 m, 2 w
This show is a lively compilation of the many face of love, taken from the works of William Shakespeare. Selections range from the ridiculous to the sublime: excerpts from A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, ROMEO AND JULIET, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, and LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST alternate with some of the Bard's mo more...

T-Shirt PictureSTORM-BREEDER Drama Adapted by Brian C. Billings
From the story "Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" by William Austin
2 m, 2 w, 3 flexible
Script: 29 pages
This play tells the story of the phantom coachman Peter Rugg, a man doomed forever to race along the roads to Boston but never to arrive there. Overtaken by a fit of rage while traveling during a stormy night, Bosto more...

T-Shirt PictureNEON NUDE Comedy By Kay Rhoads
Cast: 4 m, 4 w
Script: 32 pages
Friendships are tried, prejudice revealed, and self-interest is (dare it be said) exposed, in this fast-moving comedy. A small Iowa town must deal with the weighty issue of whether a stone statue violates the morals ordinance. Chorlis Deets, longtime resident of Lamb’s Corner, has a new lawn or more...

DANCES WITH THE MINOTAURDANCES WITH THE MINOTAUR Drama By Daniel S. Kehde
4 m, 4 w, extras
Script: 44 pages
Sam and Billy are two wheelchair-bound kids who have been mainstreamed into a regular high school. Billy is a poet who, under under the pseudonym of "Minotaur" for half man, half beast, exchanges romantic e-mails with Miranda, one of his classmates. Sam is a rebel with devastating wit, who f more...

CURIOUS ADVENTURE IN ST. PETERCURIOUS ADVENTURE IN ST. PETER Satire By Lorene Erickson
Inspired by "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol
5 m, 5 w, extras
Script: 36 pages
It is St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1830s. Our hero, Kosmolyov, possesses a large nose, a prerequisite for the social status he desires. He is about to be engaged to Prosprina, a shallow, but well-connected young woman who also cares only about social more...

PRINCESS AND THE SWINEHERDPRINCESS AND THE SWINEHERD Classic Adaptation By Vern Adix
5 m, 5 w
Four partial settings
Script pages: 44
This is a fun dramatization of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Young King Rupert spies lovely Princess Grace from a neighboring kingdom and fall instantly in love. But in his attempt to woo her he soon finds out she is not as lovely in actions as she is in looks. She is sno more...

CHECKOUTCHECKOUT Drama By Daniel Fisher
1 m, 1 w, 1 flexible, 1 non-speaking extra
Script: 18 pages
A chance encounter leads to the eventual regeneration of two lost and troubled young people. Set in a mysteriously situated hotel, the play begins with the arrival of Ben at his final destination: a quiet room where he intends to end his life. His initial frustration at more...

MUDDIN' IN CHUMUCKLAMUDDIN' IN CHUMUCKLA Drama By James Armstrong
3 m, 3 w
Script: 36 pages
Six teenage friends hop into a car on a Friday night, determined to have a blast, and perhaps rekindle their fading relationships. But with high school over and the future beckoning, nothing can remain quite the same. Lynn and Bert discover their attraction for each other may not be enough to keep t more...

GOTTA GET PUMPED!GOTTA GET PUMPED! Drama By Jeffrey Smart
2 m, 3w
Script: 27 pages
Davey is a small freshman boy, who's got a crush on his sister's friend, Jennifer. With his idol a professional wrestler, Davey starts on a quest to get pumped up. But his behavior becomes obsessive. He has "bigorexia," a disorder that is a lesser-known counterpart to women's anorexia. M more...

DEAR JASONDEAR JASON Drama By Rachel Feldbin Urist
5 m, 3 w
Script: 30 pages
The classic Medea legend of a woman scorned becomes the basis of this current day story about divorce. Jason and Medea swap barbs and pleasantries in correspondence that ultimately draws four others into the letter-writing fray. The letters begin with Medea's pleas for reconciliation. When more...

NO EASY ROAD TO FREEDOMNO EASY ROAD TO FREEDOM Drama by Tom Quinn
2 m, 2 w
Script: 27 pages. Ideal for Black History month observances.
The road to freedom for people of diversity has not been easy in American History. Students will learn of the struggles for acceptance of a wide range of minority groups through poetry, drama, and song. Hear the stories that made America and that continue to sha more...

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