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The Proposal Lindsay Price Play Script

The Proposal

adapted by Lindsay Price from Anton Chekhov
Comedy Classical Adaptation

Log line for the proposal

  • About 20 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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Puzzle Pieces Krista Boehnert Play Script

Puzzle Pieces

by Krista Boehnert
Dramedy Character Study Experimental Form

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.

  • About 45 minutes
  • 1 F + 4 Any Gender, Optional Ensemble
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 20 pages
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Puzzle Pieces: Competition Version Krista Boehnert Play Script

Puzzle Pieces: Competition Version

by Krista Boehnert
Drama Character Study Issue-Based

A group of teens piece together who they are and who they are becoming, revealing their fears, dreams, and defining moments through raw, interconnected monologues.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 1 F + 4 Any Gender, Plus Optional Ensemble
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 19 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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Red Rover Christian Kiley Play Script

Red Rover

by Christian Kiley
Drama Issue-Based Movement-based

A young girl is pulled out of her history class to go to the hospital where she discovers she has cancer. She befriends Lucy (who is chemotherapy personified) and she and Lucy prepare to take the disease.

  • About 20 minutes
  • 1 M + 3 F + 12 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Red Tee Lindsay Price Play Script

Red Tee

by Lindsay Price
Dramedy Vignettes

It’s time for role call. Who are you?

  • About 35 minutes
  • 1 M + 5 F + 6 Any Gender + 1 M or F + 1 Trans Man + 1 Non-Binary, Expandable to 29
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 35 pages
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The Redemption of Gertie Greene Taryn Temple Play Script

The Redemption of Gertie Greene

by Taryn Temple
Dramedy

Is Gertie really what everyone calls her: a freak, strange, stupid, clumsy, and mean?

  • About 55 minutes
  • 4 M + 4 F + 8 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools
  • 37 pages
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The Redemption of Gertie Greene: Competition Version Taryn Temple Play Script

The Redemption of Gertie Greene: Competition Version

by Taryn Temple
Dramedy

A competition-length adaptation of The Redemption of Gertie Greene by Taryn Temple

  • About 30 minutes
  • 4 M + 4 F + 8 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • 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 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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Roshambo Brian Borowka Play Script

Roshambo

by Brian Borowka
Comedy

Some people take Rock-Paper-Scissors (aka Roshambo) seriously. Very seriously.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 2 M + 11 F + 3 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 28 pages
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Sandy is an Eggplant, Shannon is a Pretty Girl Lindsay Price Play Script

Sandy is an Eggplant, Shannon is a Pretty Girl

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Character Study Student Directors

While wearing ugly purple bridesmaid dresses, an older sister struggles with her seemingly perfect pretty sister.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Santa's Zombie Apocalypse Bradley Walton Play Script

Santa's Zombie Apocalypse

by Bradley Walton
Comedy Holiday

Santa is trapped by zombies and two reindeer fawns are determined to save the day.

  • About 80 minutes
  • 24 Any Gender, plus optional extras. Can be done with a cast of 9.
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 67 pages
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Scarlet Expectations of a Drowned Maiden and Two Greek Queens Robert Wing Play Script

Scarlet Expectations of a Drowned Maiden and Two Greek Queens

by Robert Wing
Comedy Character Study

A talk show welcomes some of literature's most memorable women who just can’t seem to get it right when it comes to men.

  • About 40 minutes
  • 1 M + 7 F + 4 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 28 pages
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The Scarlet Heart Allison Williams Play Script

The Scarlet Heart

by Allison Williams
Comedy Commedia dell'arte Movement-based

Join commedia dell'arte characters in a hungry, thirsty, bungling, quest for the Scarlet Heart. An excellent introduction for any student performer.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 4 M + 3 F + 3 Any Gender
  • Unit Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 59 pages
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Scenes from a Quarantine Lindsay Price Play Script

Scenes from a Quarantine

by Lindsay Price
Dramedy Issue-Based Vignettes

This vignette style play can be easily performed using an online platform and has a variety of scenes to address all student skill levels.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 21 Any Gender, Minimum of 4
  • Online Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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Scene-Speare!: Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors Lindsay Price Play Script

Scene-Speare!: Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors

edited by Lindsay Price
Comedy Drama Shakespeare

A collection of annotated Shakespearean scenes for student actors.

  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 127 pages
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See the Light Lindsay Price Play Script

See the Light

by Lindsay Price
Drama

The truth hurts. Especially when you're afraid to tell it and not expecting to hear it.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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The Shadow Stories - A Cursed Play Matthew Webster Play Script

The Shadow Stories - A Cursed Play

by Matthew Webster
Drama Classical Adaptation

Five very old, very dangerous stories from around the world...

  • About 40 minutes
  • 8 M + 8 F + 15 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 45 pages
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Shakespeare's Super Snowy Seasonal Sleigh Ride Stage Show! Lindsay Price Play Script

Shakespeare's Super Snowy Seasonal Sleigh Ride Stage Show!

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Holiday Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s characters deserve to celebrate the holidays too!

  • About 70 minutes
  • 6 M + 11 F + 19 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 58 pages
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She Wrote, Died, Then Wrote Some More Steven Stack Play Script

She Wrote, Died, Then Wrote Some More

by Steven Stack
Melodrama Mystery

Tonight was going to be writer Alina Deveraux’s most important night, the unveiling of her memoirs. Until she ended up dead. Or not dead.

  • About 40 minutes
  • 1 M + 7 F + 2 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 43 pages
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