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Play Scripts for Schools suitable for Teen
Wait Wait Bo Bait (Middle School Edition)
A middle school vignette play about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy to stage.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 M + 4 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 22 pages
Waiting Room
A group of teenage cancer patients wait to hear about their progress. A bond is created as they discover their similarities and eccentricities.
- About 25 minutes
- 4 M + 7 F + 1 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
The Waking Moment
Julie would do anything to be just like her best friend Rhonda. But she soon finds out Rhonda's perfect world is a nightmare. Deals with sexual abuse.
- About 35 minutes
- 3 M + 4 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 27 pages
Walls
An abstract look at generational barriers.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Water. Gun. Argument.
A squirt gun would never be mistaken for a real gun, right?
- About 40 minutes
- 4 M + 8 F + 37 Any Gender, Using doubling, the play could be performed with as few as 18 actors
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 30 pages
We Are Masks
We all wear a mask. What will happen when the world sees who you really are?
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 8 F + 5 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
We Open Tomorrow Night?!
A scripted talent show where YOU are the stars!
- About 90 minutes
- 4 M + 6 F + 4 Any Gender, Plus Acts
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 47 pages
We Open Tomorrow Night?! (One Act Version)
A competition-length version of We Open Tomorrow Night?!
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 6 F + 4 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
Weird
Internet Dating can be very weird. Especially when you don't tell the whole truth.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Wellness Check
Three characters struggle with wellness in uncertain times.
- About 15 minutes
- 3 Any Gender
- Online Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Wenceslas
A moving interpretation of the classic carol Good King Wenceslas. With music, song, a touching message and great roles for actors of all levels.
- About 45 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F + 14 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 30 pages
What do you do when the Elves have the flu?
The Elves can't eat, they can't sleep and they certainly can't work. And with Christmas around the corner, how will the toys get made?
- About 20 minutes
- 6 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
Wheels
A teenage boy tries to repair a beat-up old truck so that he can get away from his parents and their broken down marriage.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
who are we, who we are
Addresses anxiety and depression in teens.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 14 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
Will and Whimsy: Sixteen Dramatically Illustrated Sonnets of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets come alive in this play where modern scenes play hand in hand with the original text. Very flexible casting.
- About 50 minutes
- 8 Any Gender, Expandable to 35
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 43 pages
Winnie-the-Pooh
Join Pooh Bear, Piglet, and all their friends in the Hundred Acre wood.
- About 90 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 8 Any Gender, Additional Narrators
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
With Liberty and Justice For All
Voices from a BLM protest.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 3 Any Gender + 1 Trans Man
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 20 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
There is no place like home.
- About 95 minutes
- 5 M + 8 F + 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
Yes, Virginia, There is a Virginia
An ordinary shopper survey takes absurd twists and turns for Virginia as she struggles to answer the surprisingly cosmic question: Is Ann Landers real?
- About 25 minutes
- 15 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
You
An accused trio probes one another. Who is the rat?
- About 10 minutes
- 3 M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
