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DYIN' FREE Drama By Troy Shearer	HOW I LEARNED TO STOP BEING... Comedy By Bobby Keniston

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	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...

	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...

	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...

	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...

TIME TO HEAL	TIME TO HEAL Drama By Burton Bumgarner Multi-racial cast of 7 m, 7 w, 6 flexible Script: 56 pages Jim and Lillian Fowler are having a dinner party to welcome their daughter home from college and meet her fiance. Lillian's brother, Walt, a physician, is also there, even though he and Jim get under each other's skins, especially when Walt needles Jim about 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...

	EMPATHIZE IT Drama with humor By Michelle S. Uyemura Flexible casting: 2 - 6 m, 8 - 17 w Script pages: 52. Alden and Sidney find themselves developing an unlikely friendship having been marked as outcasts by the “in crowd” at school. We see through their eyes what it is like to be ridiculed and picked on, what it feels like to have your “friends” turn on you because of more...

FREEDOM RIDERS	FREEDOM RIDERS Drama By Tom Quinn 2 m, 2 w (playing 18 roles) Simple setting and costumes. Script: 40 pages. About 70 minutes. is set in 1961 as two young women from Harvard try to decide if they should join the Freedom Rides of the 1960s. As you travel along you will meet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, W.E. 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...

	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...

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...

	SCHOOL LIKE OURS Drama By Joe Cherubino 5 m, 5 w, extras Script: 64 pages Chris, an all-American student, is healing. Having survived a shooting at his old school, he is starting to get on with his life. He has moved to a new school and meeting new friends: Allison, a girl with a big heart; Trent, the most popular kid in school with problems at home; and Randy, the 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...

	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...

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...

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...

	HANGMAN Drama By A. W. Richardson 3 m, 7 w, 1 flexible, optional doubling Script: 68 pages Mary Beth Langmeyer is charged with first-degree murder after she shoots her husband while he sleeps. She claims he had been physically and emotionally abusive during their marriage, and that she feared for her life if she reported it. The case becomes a battle of pe 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...

	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...

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...

	FLYIN' Drama By Cynthia Mercati 9 m, 10 w Script: 64 pages Brett Spencer yearns to do more, to be more. So she and her best friend, Nora, form this kind of group thing to help them and their friends get through their senior year of high school without losing their minds. No rules, not even a name, it's just a place to meet and be yourself. Their friends 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...

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...

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...

	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...

	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...

	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...

	NOTHING FOR GRANTED Drama By Dan Shafer 2 m, 6 w, 1 flexible Script: 56 pages Darby is a senior in high school, editor of the school newspaper, and dating the homecoming queen. Everything in his life is wonderful with one secret exception. Darby has been HIV positive since a blood transfusion he received as a child. His friends learn how to deal first with the news of more...

	FREEDOM TRAIN Drama By Kate Emery Pogue With doubling: 4m, 4w, plus ensemble to play various small roles (Four actors are African-American and four Caucasian, two women and two men in each group.) Number of script pages:56 When Mandy Kate, a young slave girl, overhears a threat to sell her brother-in-law Robert, she rushes to warn her sister Sarah. The family p 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CAMELOT COURT	CAMELOT COURT Drama By Rita Weinstein 5 m, 4 w Script: 71 pages Corryann Driggers, "sixteen and never been kissed," feels trapped living in the poverty of the trailer park in rural south Florida. When Russian missiles are discovered in Cuba, just 90 miles away, everyone in Corryann's small world begins acting on their fears, missed opportunities, and failed d more...

	DYIN' FREE Drama By Troy Shearer Interracial cast of 4 m, 3 w, 2 flexible, 1 child Script: 61 pages. Cole, a slave, struggles with the prospect of escaping--the personal struggles and danger it would mean for his family. Escape would also mean forgoing all the trust and faith his “owner,” Mr. Jones, had invested in Cole. After much thought, and arguing with hi 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...

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...

TOO FREE FOR ME	TOO FREE FOR ME Drama By Rex Stephenson 6 m, 7 w One Interior. About 90 minutes. Winner of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education award in 1995. Ideal for Black History month observances. The drama is based on an actual trial that occurred in Franklin County, Virginia in 1851. Indiana Choice, a black woman, claims that she and her three children are fre more...

THINGS WE COULDN'T SAY	THINGS WE COULDN'T SAY Drama By James Schaap 3 m, 3 w, 1 flexible Unit Set or Found Space. Script: 51 pages. About 90 minutes. The biographer of the story of Berendina (Diet) Eman is interrupted by Diet herself as he begins a lecture about the Second World War and Nazi resistance in occupied Europe. Diet explains that her efforts to hide Jewish people were not unique, b 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...

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...

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...

	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...

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...

	DEFINING MOMENTS Drama By Bryan McCampbell Flexible cast, approx. 11 m, 14 w, extras, doubling possible Script: 52 pages This play forces us to examine the points in our lives when we make decisions - right or wrong, good or bad - that will define our own future as well as the lives of others. Built upon a series of monologues and scenes, the play depicts young ad 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...

ENVY THE MOON	ENVY THE MOON Dark Comedy By Rene Rebman 2 m, 3 w Script: 62 pages Janine, the temperamental half of a totally unmatched set of twins, arrives at her sister's house in the middle of the night, making good on her endless threats to leave her husband. When Arlene and her husband try to explain it isn't a good time for a houseguest, Janine is surprised to find th more...

	RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT Drama By Mark Fauser and Brent Briscoe 18 flexible parts, doubling possible Script: 48 pages The play takes place during a graveyard shift in a big city police booking room where alleged criminals' mug shots are taken by two cops, a hardened veteran and a rookie on her first night. Some of the "criminals" include an African-American graduate stud 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...

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...

SERVICE FOR JEREMY WONG	SERVICE FOR JEREMY WONG Drama By Daniel S. Kehde 9 m, 9 w Script: 68 pages When Jeremy Wong, a 15-year-old gay student, is savagely beaten and killed by two fellow students, the whole school reels from the blows. Reporters from all over the country descend on the town. Deep divisions among the students emerge as the student council debates whether or not to hold a memorial 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...

IMPORTANT THINGS IN MY LIFE	IMPORTANT THINGS IN MY LIFE Resource By Daniel S. Kehde 51 pages. The thoughts, hopes, fears, dreams - the important things in the lives of teens - are explored honestly in this collection of 18 monologues. For humor, two of our favorites are "Studs," about trying to don a tux for the first time while running late for the prom, and "Bubbacar," about a teen's first car which is more...

ALL THE THINGS I WANT TO SAY	ALL THE THINGS I WANT TO SAY Resource Monologues by Daniel S. Kehde 20 teenage voices 60 pages. Here is another monologue collection written by the ever-popular Dan Kehde who, because of his full-time work with teens in theatre, can give an honest voice to their thoughts and emotions. These serious, and at times, humorous monologues tell the stories of more than 20 teens and their more...

YOU DON'T KNOW US	YOU DON'T KNOW US Resource By Daniel S. Kehde 64 pages. Monologues are traditionally used for auditions and classroom work, but they are an overlooked form of performance art, epsecially for teenagers. This collection brings this usually standard genre into the performance spotlight. Like other collections by Dan Kehde, this one was developed and performed in what has no more...

DESPERATE FOR MAGIC	DESPERATE FOR MAGIC Resource Book By Chamber Stevens 29 pages. Here are 12 monologues which capture the gut feelings of teens, their longings, dreams and wishes as well as their frustrations of trying to reach for the stars. From Wendy, who'll do anything to look good as Duane's girlfriend, including vomiting the food she eats, to Michael, the class valedictorian whose i 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...