Play Scripts for Schools featuring Movement-based
Life, Off Book
What happens when Ophelia and Jeb have to tear themselves away from the script and live life off book?
- About 35 minutes
- 5 M + 3 F + 10 Any Gender, Plus ensemble
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 33 pages
Magic Fairy in the Microwave
An ordinary girl has an overactive imagination. Maybe. This is a fast physical extravaganza with guns, knives, and blood. Kittens will be harmed.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 4 F + 5 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 24 pages
Mmmbeth
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
Mmmbeth: Competition Length Version
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
Much Ado High School
What if Much Ado About Nothing took place at a high school dance? An enjoyable introduction to Shakespeare with lightning-fast pace and snappy dialogue.
- About 30 minutes
- 5 M + 6 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 28 pages
Mummu
A one act play inspired by an ancient Sumerian myth depicting one of the first Mesopotamian gods.
- About 25 minutes
- 4 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Myth-o-logues
A fantastic one act and classroom resource filled with monologues from Greek mythology.
- About 40 minutes
- 14 M + 17 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 pages
The Myths at the Edge of the World
Four campers are not only lost in the wood, they are lost at the edge of the world with no land, water, stars or sun. The only way to bring life back is to ask the right questions that will release stories from the wind.
- About 50 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F + 2 Any Gender, Expandable to 30
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 42 pages
neeT Teen
A vignette play about teen life – backwards, forwards and inside-out. Told through a variety of forms: kitchen sink, absurd, movement and song.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 6 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 40 pages
No Horse Town
For the young men of Heywood, crossing the street is as dangerous as going off to war. A highly stylized comedy.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 7 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
One Beer Too Many
Skip writes from the heart, but uncovers something no one wants to read.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Passing Period Purgatory
Sometimes the hardest part of school is getting from one class to the next.
- About 25 minutes
- 13 Any Gender + 1 Non-Binary
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 26 pages
Patterns and Power: The Female Edison
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
The Pauper Princess
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
The Perils of Modern Education
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
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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
Pressure
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.
- About 45 minutes
- 4 M + 10 F, Plus Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
A Recipe of Me
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
Red Rover
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
The Scarlet Heart
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
