What if Pandora wasn’t the villain after all? Pandora’s Fire takes Ancient Greek choral storytelling and gives it a bold modern twist - with curiosity, chaos, and ultimately, hope. Perfect for student performers!
Play Scripts for Schools using Simple costumes
6ft Scenes
A collection of 15 scenes in which no two characters get within 6ft of each other.
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
La Ansiedad es Naranja
A Spanish translation of the vignette play Anxiety is Orange.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 7 F + 12 Any Gender, Doubling possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 24 pages
Anxiety is Orange
Join the characters in this vignette play as they navigate the world, each other, and the greens, greys, blues, reds, pinks, yellows, and oranges around them.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 7 F + 12 Any Gender, Doubling possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Apostrophe's
A silly comedy about how the misuse of apostrophes are ruining the lives of students. Flexible casting, audience participation, and fun staging.
- About 40 minutes
- 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
Arctic Adventure Theatre: The Case of the Crazed Crashers
A big fun online-friendly show in the style of a radio serial.
- About 35 minutes
- 3 M + 4 F + 13 Any Gender
- Radio Play
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Backspace
In this world writing is a struggle, a battle, a war. Backspace explores personification and characterization like no other play.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 6 F + 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
Better Than The Movie - Socially Distanced Version
A socially-distanced version of Better Than the Movie.
- About 20 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 1 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Boat
In this one-act middle school vignette play, characters come face-to-face with the fact that there are other people in their boat. Some are different. Some only seem different.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 7 F + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 32
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 35 pages
Box
A middle school vignette play about the boxes we find ourselves in.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 6 F + 9 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 35 pages
The Bright Blue Mailbox Suicide Note
Jake finds a suicide note in his mailbox. Is it real? Is it a joke? Jake is determined to find out but instead learns a secret he didn't want to know.
- About 45 minutes
- 4 M + 5 F + 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Building Blocks, Virtually
A boy and a girl share words of wisdom straight from their parents' mouths.
- About 15 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Bungee Jump Bear Trap
Sometimes you need to leap without knowing what the outcome will be.
- About 25 minutes
- 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
The Burgundy Letter
Hester90 is publicly shamed and shunned for a racial slur against another student.
- About 50 minutes
- 1 M + 2 F + 6 Any Gender, plus 0-100 “The Anonymous” characters
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 39 pages
The Butterfly Queen
A touching ensemble piece where sacrifice is as simple as a pair of wings.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 4 F + 12 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 19 pages
Characters Behaving Badly
This vignette play asks students to look at the concept of what it means to be “good” and “bad.”
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F + 5 Any Gender + 1 Trans Woman
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Chicken. Road.
A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered questions as they try to understand why someone who has it all would kill themselves. Powerful monologues.
- About 45 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Chicken. Road. Competition Version
A competition-length version of Chicken. Road. by Lindsay Price
- About 35 minutes
- 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 25 pages
Commedia Chekhov
Introduce your students to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov through the vibrant lens of Commedia dell’Arte.
- About 70 minutes
- 3 M + 7 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 70 pages
Completely, Absolutely Normal: Vignettes About LGBTQ+ Teens
Ten interconnected vignettes with LGBTQ+ themes.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 5 F + 8 M or F + 1 Trans Man
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
