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Play Scripts for Schools featuring SEL

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a construct intended to provide students with the skills to confront challenges, build resilience and demonstrate empathy for others. These plays are great to use with your students to introduce SEL or deepen their understanding and awareness.

That One Book About You-Know-What Kirk Shimano Play Script

That One Book About You-Know-What

by Kirk Shimano Canadian Author
Dramedy

When students break into a sealed school library to uncover why books are being banned, their stolen reading of a redacted school board transcript collides with Moby-Dick, revealing how a crusading parent and Captain Ahab share the same dangerous obsession, and how censorship turns stories into weapons.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F + 7 Any Gender, Plus Angry Parents and Intrepid Sailors
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 21 pages
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Theatrefolk's Ten-Minute Play Collection Lindsay Price Play Script

Theatrefolk's Ten-Minute Play Collection

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy Drama Student Directors

A collection of ten minute plays.

  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 55 pages
This collection contains Football Romeo (Ten Minute Version), The Four Hags of the Apocalypse Eat Salad at their General Meeting, Liver for Breakfast, Paper Thin, and Walls
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They Eat Sunshine, Not Zebras Dara Murphy Play Script

They Eat Sunshine, Not Zebras

by Dara Murphy Canadian Author
Comedy

Nothing stands in the way of the green grass. Until they wake up one morning to see a yellow dandelion in their midst.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 11 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools & High Schools
  • 30 pages
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Thief Lindsay Price Play Script

Thief

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy

Sandy will not have a thief for a boyfriend. No way.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F
  • Simple Set
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Thought Traps Lindsay Price Play Script

Thought Traps

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Dramedy

Ariane and Kate deal with people from their past who invade their head space. Will either be able to set themselves free?

  • About 35 minutes
  • 2 M + 5 F + 1 M or F + 2 Non-Binary
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 37 pages
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Tick Talk Lindsay Price Play Script

Tick Talk

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Dramedy Character Study Choral Work

The teenagers in Tick Talk have much to say, but no way to say it. Characters are limited to only ONE WORD for the whole play. A great challenge for actors.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 2 M + 6 F + 5 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 31 pages
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The Tower of Tyler Lindsay Price Play Script

The Tower of Tyler

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy

Tyler is a star. But his sister is getting tired of keeping his secrets.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 3 M + 8 F + 7 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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The Truth or Dare Sisterhood Jeffrey Harr Play Script

The Truth or Dare Sisterhood

by Jeffrey Harr
Comedy

A group of misfit teens at a chaotic sleepover must navigate identity, friendship, and loyalty when a newcomer with big secrets joins their sisterhood.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 1 M + 5 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 31 pages
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Tumblefur Bradley Hayward Play Script

Tumblefur

by Bradley Hayward Canadian Author
Comedy

A sweet teenage girl takes her dog for a walk in the park and discovers that there is something exciting around every corner.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Tuna Fish Eulogy Lindsay Price Play Script

Tuna Fish Eulogy

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Drama Character Study Choral Work

The tragedy of a young boy's death is examined. Written in the Ladder play format the text runs in vertical columns for fuller choral work.

  • About 40 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F + 1 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 40 pages
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Typecast Amanda Murray Cutalo Play Script

Typecast

by Amanda Murray Cutalo
Comedy Backstage Comedy

Students have all mysteriously been cast in the “wrong” roles.

  • About 60 minutes
  • 7 F + 2 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 42 pages
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Underneath Lindsay Price Play Script

Underneath

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy

Brittany wants to scream. Echo wants to shout. And Josie wants O-U-T, out.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 5 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Underwater Lindsay Price Play Script

Underwater

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Drama Character Study

A powerful drama that dives into the life of a teenage competitive swimmer.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 1 M + 3 F + 8 Any Gender, Plus ensemble of enthusiasts
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 32 pages
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Upon A Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic Kathleen Donnelly Play Script

Upon A Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic

by Kathleen Donnelly
Drama Character Study

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.

  • About 45 minutes
  • 1 M + 4 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 42 pages
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Virtual Family Christian Kiley Play Script

Virtual Family

by Christian Kiley
Drama Issue-Based

A look at a soothing world where complete dependency on technology takes away all ills. But is everything really perfect?

  • About 30 minutes
  • 5 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 28 pages
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Wait Wait Bo Bait Lindsay Price Play Script

Wait Wait Bo Bait

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy Student Directors Vignettes

A vignette play all about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy staging.

  • About 20 minutes
  • 2 M + 4 F, Easily Expandable
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 22 pages
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Wait Wait Bo Bait (Middle School Edition) Lindsay Price Play Script

Wait Wait Bo Bait (Middle School Edition)

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy Student Directors Vignettes

A middle school vignette play about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy to stage.

  • About 20 minutes
  • 2 M + 4 F, Easily Expandable
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools
  • 22 pages
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Waiting Room Christian Kiley Play Script

Waiting Room

by Christian Kiley
Character Study Issue-Based Drama

A group of teenage cancer patients wait to hear about their progress. A bond is created as they discover their similarities and eccentricities.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 4 M + 7 F + 1 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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The Waking Moment Bradley Hayward Play Script

The Waking Moment

by Bradley Hayward Canadian Author
Drama Character Study Issue-Based

Julie would do anything to be just like her best friend Rhonda. But she soon finds out Rhonda's perfect world is a nightmare. Deals with sexual abuse.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 3 M + 4 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 27 pages
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Walls Lindsay Price Play Script

Walls

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Drama Character Study Experimental Form

An abstract look at generational barriers.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 M + 2 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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