Smiles, hugs and hi-fives. Isn’t that all it takes for a middle school student to be happy? The Happiness Shop is an excellent class project that explores important issues.
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.
Skip writes from the heart, but uncovers something no one wants to read.
In this poignant comedy, Liz Nostrand presents her life as a competition: 100 significant lies told by and to Liz. But what about the lies she's told herself?
How will you respond to this evolving new world?
An upwardly mobile couple creates a Tuesday night diversion.
Sometimes the hardest part of school is getting from one class to the next.
A retelling of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper.
The realities and the stereotypes of school violence. Not just the school shooting, but harassment and bullying. Violence is about power. So is high school.
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.
Tara tries to convince her best friend not to enter a beauty pageant.
An unlikely romance between the outcast and the linebacker brings prom night magic.
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.
Heartfelt stories about a family told through recipes.
It’s time for role call. Who are you?
Is Gertie really what everyone calls her: a freak, strange, stupid, clumsy, and mean?
This vignette play explores relationships and situations that speak to today’s teens in a variety of genres with flexible gender roles.
This vignette play explores relationships and situations that speak to today’s teens in a variety of genres with flexible gender roles.
While wearing ugly purple bridesmaid dresses, an older sister struggles with her seemingly perfect pretty sister.
This vignette style play can be easily performed using an online platform and has a variety of scenes to address all student skill levels.
Middle school is the tricky tightrope between being a kid and being a teenager. The characters try to keep their balance on the first day of middle school.
The truth hurts. Especially when you're afraid to tell it and not expecting to hear it.