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CATEGORY:One-Act Plays for School Theatre| 18 New Releases | ||||
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 ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE, THE Comedy By Alan Heckner |
 CHILDREN OF OEDIPUS, THE Drama By Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia |
 CON, THE Horror By Bryan Starchman |
 DARK TOWER, THE Drama By Bobby Keniston |
 EPIC FAIL Comedy By Bradley Hayward |
 FRANKENSTEIN UNPLUGGED Drama Adapted by Jonathan Yukich |
 HOW I LEARNED TO STOP BEING... Comedy By Bobby Keniston |
 HOW TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Comedy By Bradley Walton |
 IPHIGENIA AT AULIS Tragedy Adapted by Philip Lerman |
 MACHINATIONS Farce By Reid Conrad |
 NIGHTMARE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE Drama By Edward J. Walsh and Robert Thomas Noll |
 REALITY SHOW PRINCE ABSURDLY.. Comedy By Eddie Zipperer |
 SCREENAGERS Comedy By Jim and Jane Jeffries |
 SECRET IDENTITY: Adventure... Comedy By Will Ledesma |
 SOLDIERS YOUNG AND BRAVE Drama By Lorraine Thompson |
 SURVIVOR, THE Horror By Bryan Starchman |
 TRIPLE THREAT Comedy By Wiley Russell |
 TROJAN WOMEN, THE Tragedy Adapted by Philip Lerman |
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 | SUPERHERO 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... | |
 | SHUFFLING 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... | |
 | FRUMPLED 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... | |
 | TEN 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... | |
 | ATTENTION 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... | |
 | AMERICA'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... | |
 | SATURDAY 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... | |
 | ATTACK 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... | |
| HOW 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... | |
 | TEXT 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... | |
| EPIC 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... | |
 | POE-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... | |
 | I 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... | |
 | 110TH 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... | |
 | NEXT! 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... | |
 | HEX 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 GLASS | THROUGH 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." more... | |
 | HELP 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... | |
 | DON'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... | |
 | RUNNING 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... | |
 | VOICES 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... | |
 | CAPRICIOUS 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... | |
 | FINE 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... | |
 | PERSONALS 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... | |
 | EXPOSÉ: 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... | |
 | WAITING 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... | |
 | BURGLARS, 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... | |
| HOW 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 CHEWING | NO 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... | |
 | TRUE 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... | |
 | LOONIES 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... | |
 | 65 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... | |
 | CRISIS, 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... | |
 | COMMEDIA 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... | |
 | WITH 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... | |
 | HURRY 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... | |
 | SORRY, 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... | |
 | CONFORM! 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... | |
 | MOST 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... | |
 | MURDER 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... | |
 | REALITY 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 TRAIN | LAST 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... | |
 | NIGHT 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... | |
 | FRUMP 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... | |
 | DEAR 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... | |
| CHILDREN 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... | |
 | RANSOM 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... | |
 | DUI=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... | |
 | DOCTOR 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... | |
 | THAT'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... | |
 | TIME 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 SCREAM | QUEEN 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... | |
 | SENIOR 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... | |
 | HIT 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... | |
 | THINGS 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 LEAF | LAST 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... | |
| TRIPLE 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 STORYTELLER | MOUSE 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 RUN | RUN 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... | |
 | MONKEY'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 WORLD | JOCELYN'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 NOTE | ONE 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'S | ATTACK 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... | |
 | CROSSES 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... | |
| STOPLIGHT | STOPLIGHT 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 LIGHTS | STRING 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 PARADISE | DRACULA 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... | |
 | GET 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... | |
 | BEST 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... | |
 | MOMENT'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 TROUBLE | GOOD 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... | |
 | MACBETH - 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 YEARBROKE | HIGH 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... | |
 | PIRATE 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 TOMORROW | GONE 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... | |
 | DA 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... | |
 | PREZ'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 DARK | FRIENDS 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 MALONE | ADVENTURES 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 NUTS | MIXED 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... | |
| REALITY 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 STAGE | WE 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 TALE | RAVEN'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 BED | MAN 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... | |
 | LIVE, 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... | |
 | SENSE & 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... | |
 | DRAMA 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... | |
 | OFFICE 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 STORY | HER 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 STRANGERS | THREE 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 WEBSTER | DEVIL & 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 GAME | FAIR 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... | |
 | MODEL 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 KNOW | I 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... | |
 | MR 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... | |
 | FINAL 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 CAMPERS | JO 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 GENTLEMAN | WOULD-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... | |
 | INVISIBLE 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... | |
 | FOURTH 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... | |
 | SHAKESPEARE! 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... | |
 | NECKLACE 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... | |
 | DELAYED 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... | |
 | TAKE 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... | |
| VALJEAN | VALJEAN 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... | |
 | SHALLOWEEN 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, THE | KEYS, 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... | |
 | BLIND 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... | |
 | ROMANCERS 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... | |
 | CODE 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-BOX | JACK-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 PARTY | BIRTHDAY 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 DOLLARS | THOUSAND 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... | |
 | THREE 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... | |
| SURVIVOR, 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... | |
 | SO 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... | |
 | ALADDIN 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... | |
 | COMMENCEMENT 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... | |
| ROOM | ROOM 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... | |
 | TARTUFFE 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... | |
 | RISE 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... | |
| FINIS | FINIS 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 THISBE | PYRAMUS 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 PARK | NICE 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... | |
 | ANTIGONE, 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 QUEEN | PRINCE 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 SHREW | TAMING 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 INVALID | IMAGINARY 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 BAND | ADVENTURE 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... | |
 | STRAIGHT 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' ROOM | GIRLS' 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 THEATRE | LITTLE 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-ROUND | MONEY 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... | |
 | ANNOYING 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... | |
 | TESTING 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... | |
 | SUBURBIA, 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... | |
 | CASTING 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 AWAKENINGS | RUDE 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... | |
 | LIBBY 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 THEATRE | TRIO 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 PROPOSAL | MARRIAGE 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 PEERS | JURY 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 FRIENDS | TO 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... | |
 | ANOTHER 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... | |
 | NOT 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...GROUCHO | MARXISM: 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... | |
 | ECHOES 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... | |
 | MIDNIGHT 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... | |
 | ROMEO & 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 STONE | UNTURNED 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... | |
 | PECOS 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 STORIES | ELEVATOR 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 CAT | BLACK 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. #8101 The more... | |
| ANTIGONE BY SOPHOCLES | ANTIGONE 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... | |
 | SHAKESPEARE'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 METHOD | SCHARTZ-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... | |
 | PAPER 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... | |
 | LOVE 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 SHOW | NEW 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... | |
 | GIRL 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... | |
| CINDERELLA | CINDERELLA 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 LOVE | TWO 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... | |
 | RIP 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... | |
 | FISH 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... | |
| CARL | CARL 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... | |
 | FUNSUCKER 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 PARK | IN 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... | |
 | LAST 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 STYNE | DOCTOR 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... | |
 | ADAGIO...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 TIME | ROSE 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 MENTION | HONORABLE 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... | |
 | GRAND 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 REQUIEM | HIGHLAND 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 LOVE | FIRST 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 WAR | SILENT 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 STAIN | SECOND 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 REVENGE | LESSON 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... | |
 | RAPPIN'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 BOHEMIA | SCANDAL 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, THE | RED-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 SNOW | LISTEN 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... | |
 | ROMAN 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 SECRET | THEA'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... | |
| CON, 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... | |
| MACHINATIONS 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 REFRAINS | LIFE 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... | |
| ACTOR'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... | |
 | LAST 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 GRADE | MAKING 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... | |
| DARK 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... | |
| SCREENAGERS 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 & STRIPES | SCARS & 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...INTERSTATE | FROZEN 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. #1774 Frozen Waffles On The Interstate more... | |
| FLAMBOYANT MAN IN THE RAIN | FLAMBOYANT 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. #1771 more... | |
| HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS | HEAVEN 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. #1803 more... | |
| I KNOW THIS FOR SURE | I 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... | |
| IPHIGENIA 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 BANG | DOOR 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 TEAM | GREATEST 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... | |
| NIGHTMARE 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... | |
| FRANKENSTEIN 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... | |
| SOLDIERS 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 REVENGE | MOTHER 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... | |
 | FOOTBALL 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... | |
 | SHAKESPEARE 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 FORWARD | BEST 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 CORPSE | RING 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 AMANDA | IF 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... | |
| TROJAN 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 SONG | SHELBY'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 PA | FAUX 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... | |
| BREAK | BREAK 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 SUPERMODELS | DORM 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... | |
 | SIEGE 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... | |
| SIDELINES | SIDELINES 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... | |
 | MATTER 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 TIME | SHAKESPEARE 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 COURT | KANGAROO 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... | |
| NAZ | NAZ 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 DREAM | DARLA'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 TALENT | GOD-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... | |
| TURNAROUND | TURNAROUND 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 SECRET | UNTOLD 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... | |
 | SUNDAY 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... | |
 | STONE 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... | |
| SECRET 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... | |
 | TOBERMORY 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... | |
 | MY 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... | |
 | SIXTEEN 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... | |
 | MISS 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... | |
 | COMFORT'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... | |
 | LUNCH 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, THE | HAND, 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... | |
| BROTHERS | BROTHERS 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 CLOTHES | EMPERORS' 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 BULLY | EL 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 COLOR | ROSE 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 MILVERTON | CHARLES 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 CLOTHING | WOLF 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 SNAKES | ALEXANDER...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 MEN | ADVENTURE 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 GIRL | JACK'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... | |
 | TWO 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 STOP | ROLLING 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 LONG | MARTIN 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... DISASTERS | GREEKS... 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 BE | WHAT 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... | |
 | STORM-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... | |
 | NEON 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 MINOTAUR | DANCES 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. PETER | CURIOUS 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 SWINEHERD | PRINCESS 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... | |
| CHECKOUT | CHECKOUT 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 CHUMUCKLA | MUDDIN' 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 JASON | DEAR 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 FREEDOM | NO 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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