Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Teen Life
Time for a Tfolk Top Ten Plays About…
Teen Life! These are not your typical teen-angst-woe-is-me stuff. Three dimensional characters. Relevant stories. Each one offers a unique theatrical take. Read one, read them all!
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Sixteen In 10 Minutes Or Less
The lives of seven teenagers become intertwined in this humorous and oftentimes bittersweet collection of ten minute plays.
Puzzle Pieces
This play explores teen issues through a series of monologues. The characters speak frankly about their fears, their futures, and how to embrace the day to day.
Stereotype High
High school is full of stereotypes – or is it? Told in a series of interlaced vignettes, these “stereotypical” teens fight tooth and nail to reinvent themselves.
A Deep Poetic Journey Into Something
Jane wants to break out of her box. The problem is she has no idea where to start. Will Jane choose to hide inside or change her life?
Stressed
Stress is driving this quartet crazy – so much so they can’t stop talking about it. This play is a symphony of sound and character.
Pressure
Alex is a refugee. Tera is faced with an unpopular decision. Penny is getting up at five every morning and Kyle can’t live up to expectations. Candid and uncompromising, with no easy answers.
A Box of Puppies
We can all relate to feeling small in a big world. These characters share their insecurities, their frailties and their coping mechanisms.
Just Girls Talking
What starts as a meeting to finalize graduation ceremony details ends with one young woman faced with a life-changing decision. A head-on collision of values that leaves the viewer asking: What would I do?
Split
Teenagers navigate the winding road of divorce in this honest and theatrical look at the day to day reality of growing up in a family that’s been torn apart.
Neet Teen
Teen life – backwards, forwards and inside-out. In every form from kitchen sink, to absurd, to movement, to audience participation, to song, to adding your own scene.
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Pressure
by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Four teenagers struggle with pressures. The Refugee, the newbie, the perfectionist and the less than perfect. Everything comes to a head the week before prom.
Puzzle Pieces
by Krista Boehnert Canadian Author
An exploration of teen issues through a series of monologues. The characters speak frankly about their fears, their futures, and their day to day life.
Stressed
by Alan Haehnel
Stress is driving a teen quartet crazy - so much so they can't stop talking about it. This play is a symphony of sound and character.
A Box of Puppies
by Billy Houck
We can all relate to feeling small in a big world. The characters in A Box of Puppies share their insecurities, their frailties and how they cope.
Split
by Bradley Hayward Canadian Author
Children of divorce are united through humor in this honest and theatrical look at the day to day reality of growing up in a family that's been torn apart.
Sixteen in 10 Minutes or Less
by Bradley Hayward Canadian Author
The lives of seven teenagers become intertwined in this humorous and oftentimes bittersweet collection of ten minute plays. Multiple lengths available.
neeT Teen
by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
A vignette play about teen life – backwards, forwards and inside-out. Told through a variety of forms: kitchen sink, absurd, movement and song.
Just Girls Talking
by Robert Wing
A drama for six women that will have your audience talking long after they leave the theatre.
Stereotype High
by Jeffrey Harr
High school is full of stereotypes – or is it?
A Deep, Poetic Journey Into Something
by Forrest Musselman
Jane wants to break out of her box. Colour cows green and the sky purple. She wants a deep poetic journey into something. The problem is she has no idea where to start.
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