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Play Scripts for Schools using Period costumes

Jane Austen, Completely Zoomed Treanor Baring Play Script

Jane Austen, Completely Zoomed

by Treanor Baring
Comedy Classical Adaptation

A fast-paced, witty modern take on Austen’s six classic masterpieces.

  • About 60 minutes
  • Virtual Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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Layers Gary Rodgers Play Script

Layers

by Gary Rodgers Canadian Author
Comedy Experimental Form

Step inside Robin’s world as he grapples with his conscience and his anti-conscience. And then deeper still as the writer tries to figure out an ending... which he may not be able to do if he’s not actually the writer.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 2 M + 1 F + 14 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 36 pages
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Lindsay Price Play Script

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

adapted by Lindsay Price Canadian Author from Washington Irving
Choral Work Classical Adaptation Mystery

What will happen when Icabod Crane comes face to face with the headless horseman? An adaptation of the Washington Irving story.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 5 M + 7 F, Plus Ensemble
  • Simple Set.
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 31 pages
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Letters Mrs. Evelyn Merritt Play Script

Letters

by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt Canadian Author
Drama Character Study Choral Work

For many wars, letters home were the only form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones. This play brings those letters to life.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 9 M + 12 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 23 pages
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A Lighter Shade of Noir Patrick Derksen Play Script

A Lighter Shade of Noir

by Patrick Derksen Canadian Author
Comedy

A fabulously funny and high styling take on film noir.

  • About 75 minutes
  • 4 M + 5 F + 16 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 62 pages
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Little Nell and the Mortgage Foreclosure John Donald O'Shea Play Script

Little Nell and the Mortgage Foreclosure

by John Donald O'Shea
Comedy Melodrama

A delightful melodrama replete with broad comedy, memorable characters, and plenty of booing and hissing for the stovepipe-hat-wearing villain!

  • About 45 minutes
  • 2 M + 3 F
  • Unit Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 30 pages
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Lose Not Thy Head Gary Rodgers Play Script

Lose Not Thy Head

by Gary Rodgers Canadian Author
Comedy Black Comedy Shakespeare

Joan has been sentenced to lose her head for impersonating her famous brother William Shakespeare.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 1 M + 3 F + 9 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 34 pages
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Macbeth Lindsay Price Play Script

Macbeth

cutting and notes by Lindsay Price Canadian Author from the original by Shakespeare
Drama Classical Adaptation Shakespeare

A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition and murder.

  • About 60 minutes
  • 18 M + 6 F, Doubling Possible
  • Interior and Exterior
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 33 pages
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Lindsay Price Play Script

A Midsummer Night's Dream

cutting and notes by Lindsay Price Canadian Author from the original by Shakespeare
Comedy Classical Adaptation Shakespeare

A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's magical tale of mischievous fairies, and love potions.

  • About 60 minutes
  • 6 M + 8 F + 7 Any Gender
  • Interior and Exterior
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 40 pages
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Mmmbeth Allison Williams Play Script

Mmmbeth

by Allison Williams
Comedy Classical Adaptation Shakespeare

An hilarious gender-bending take on the Scottish play! Updated Version.

  • About 45 minutes
  • 5 F + 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 43 pages
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Mmmbeth: Competition Length Version Allison Williams Play Script

Mmmbeth: Competition Length Version

by Allison Williams
Comedy Classical Adaptation Shakespeare

A shorter version of our hilarious gender-bending take on the Scottish play. Updated version.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 5 F + 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 28 pages
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Much Ado About Nothing John Minigan Play Script

Much Ado About Nothing

cutting and notes by John Minigan from the original by Shakespeare
Comedy Classical Adaptation Shakespeare

This one act annotated version of Shakespeare's comedy brims with wordplay, romance, and deceit.

  • About 45 minutes
  • 5 M + 4 F + 7 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
  • Interior and Exterior
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 26 pages
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Pandora's Fire Judith White Play Script

Pandora's Fire

by Judith White
Drama Adventure Classical Adaptation

Pandora's curiosity gets the better of her in this theatrical retelling of the Greek myth.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 3 M + 4 F + 3 Any Gender, Plus chorus
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 24 pages
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Patterns and Power: The Female Edison Lindsay Price Play Script

Patterns and Power: The Female Edison

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Drama

How did a 12 year old girl, with little education and no experience with mechanical engineering invent a safety part for a power loom?

  • About 30 minutes
  • 2 F + 17 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 37 pages
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The Pauper Princess Holly Beardsley Play Script

The Pauper Princess

by Holly Beardsley inspired by Mark Twain
Comedy Classical Adaptation

A retelling of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper.

  • About 75 minutes
  • 10 M + 28 F + 34 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 71 pages
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The Perils of Modern Education Matthew Webster Play Script

The Perils of Modern Education

by Matthew Webster
Comedy Vignettes

A comedic romp through the stresses and struggles of making it through the school day.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 3 M + 19 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 39 pages
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin Mrs. Evelyn Merritt Play Script

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

adapted by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt Canadian Author from Robert Browning
Dramedy Classical Adaptation Young Audiences

There are consequences for the people of Hamelin when they refuse to pay the Piper. A theatricalization of the Robert Browning poem.

  • About 20 minutes
  • 6 M + 4 F + 13 Any Gender, Rats
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools
  • 23 pages
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Postcards from Shakespeare Allison Williams Play Script

Postcards from Shakespeare

by Allison Williams
Comedy Shakespeare

Shakespeare has writer’s block. Nothing inspires him. Queen Elizabeth sends him on a trip around the world to find inspiration.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 6 M + 4 F + 5 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 37 pages
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A Recipe of Me Kate Kilpatrick Play Script

A Recipe of Me

by Kate Kilpatrick
Drama Holiday

Heartfelt stories about a family told through recipes.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 3 M + 7 F + 9 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools
  • 23 pages
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Romeo and Juliet (Modern English) Craig Mason Play Script

Romeo and Juliet (Modern English)

adapted by Craig Mason Canadian Author from Shakespeare
Drama Classical Adaptation Shakespeare

A modern English one act version of Shakespeare's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers.

  • About 40 minutes
  • 7 M + 2 F + 3 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • Interior and Exterior
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 28 pages
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