Stretch your tech. We pride ourselves at Theatrefolk that you can produce most of our plays with two cubes. And you could take away one of the cubes if you had to. But what if you want to stretch your tech? What if you’ve got a production class with kids who must design for more than two cubes? Wonder no longer. Here are 10 plays that will Stretch your Tech.
Click the link and you’ll be taken to the webpage for each play. There you’ll get the details and read sample pages. Hand this list over to your student directors and see what they think.
All the best with your search!
Cobweb Dreams
The magical fairy forest world of the play is a great place to explore unique costumes and set design.
NOTE: One-act version available too
Frankenstein Among the Dead
So much tech possibilities: monster designs, period costumes, mood lighting and sound design to create a spooky atmosphere.
BONUS: Dracula
Upon A Sea of Dreams
In this play realism is key. Your techs will have to create period costumes, a realistic set and the off-stage sound of the Titanic going down.
Dead Men Don’t Do Radio Plays
It’s all about the sound in a radio play. Not only will your sound designer have to plan for period music but how will they make all the sound effects?
BONUS: Arctic Adventure Theatre: The Case of the Crazed Crashers
The Absolutely Insidious and Absolutely Terrifying Truth about Cat Hair
Cat Hair is a character in this play. How will your costume designer create their look? Abstract? Realism? Colourful? Black and white? The sky is the limit.
A Lighter Shade of Noir
This play takes place within a specific genre: noir. Everything from costume to lighting to set to sound have to reflect that genre.
BONUS: Tough City, Prone to Rain
Slay
This play takes place in a far away medieval leaning kingdom that is surrounded by a mysterious forest, and other dangerous things like a large snake and a morphing mist. You can go simple or all-in with the tech elements here.
The Tuesday Night Treasure Hunters and the Case of the Kraken’s Eye
This play takes place in the past and the present of Wolcott Mansion. The 1935 scenes can be as elaborate with set design as your imagination allows! Or you could put all your tech energy into period costumes and sound design.
Dead Highway
Zombies are the ultimate in costume and make-up design. How will you create the undead?
BONUS: Hamlet, Zombie Killer of Denmark
The House
This play has so much tech opportunities. There's the ruins of a Victorian House with a dark wooden staircase to nowhere. The Chosen Ones, who are ghosts dressed in grey. A doorway that disappears. Soundscapes, echoes, and creepy music throughout!
NOTE: Competition-length version available too
by Kathleen Donnelly
In a tiny third class cabin Emma dreams of a new life in America. But when the Titanic hits an iceberg, that dream becomes a nightmare.
by Bradley Walton
Cat hair is taking over the world in this hilarious huge cast one act.
by Chris Stiles
Denmark is plagued with zombies in this gruesomely comic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.
by Patrick Derksen Canadian Author
A fabulously funny and high styling take on film noir.
by Allison Williams
Put together a SFX crew and bring the radio sounds to life.
adapted by Laramie Dean from the novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thunder and lightning tear apart the night sky while two young women explore the story of Frankenstein
adapted by Laramie Dean from Bram Stoker
A highly theatrical exploration of the evil that lurks inside all of us…
by Matthew Webster
A big fun online-friendly show in the style of a radio serial.
by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
The house doesn’t just hold stories… it hungers to tell them.
by Alan Haehnel
A noir play featuring the ace detectives from the Broadly Speaking Detective Agency.
by Christopher Evans
In a world ravaged by a viral apocalypse, six teenagers must fight the undead and their own fracturing friendships to survive.
by Rachel Bland
When a monstrous beast threatens her kingdom, an ordinary princess who can't slay dragons or pass a math test sets out to find a "hero of worth," only to discover the hero she's been searching for might be herself.
by Steven Hayet
When three teenage treasure hunters break into a notorious abandoned mansion on a school night, they must outsmart a decades-old family feud to unearth a legendary blue diamond before history repeats itself.
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