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 featuring Student directors
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
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
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
Bottle Baby
Beeb is a young recovering alcoholic. But the recovery isn't going so well.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
A Box of Puppies
We can all relate to feeling small in a big world. The characters in A Box of Puppies share their insecurities, their frailties and how they cope.
- 2 M + 2 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 31 pages
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
Christmas in July
The calendar days are all in a tizzy. The New Year better fix this mess and fix it quick.
- About 20 minutes
- 20 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
Christmas in July: Two Holiday One Act Plays
Two Christmas plays. Baby New Year rearranges the calendar in Christmas in July. Christmas is in jeopardy in What do you do when the elves have the flu?
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
- 36 pages
Constantly, Incessantly, All The Time
A young girl examines the backpack of her life.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
The Date
Demons on a date are never good.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F
- Virtual Performance
- Recommended for High Schools
Diatom
Two friends without a car wait and talk. And wait and talk. And wait and talk...
- About 10 minutes
- 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Distance Learning
A play about trying to survive and thrive in a virtual classroom.
- About 25 minutes
- 13 Any Gender
- Virtual Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
ellenalicemonajune
Ellen, Alice, Mona, and June share those uncomfortable truths that only close friends can tell each other.
- About 25 minutes
- 4 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Football Romeo (Ten Minute Version)
A football player tries to tackle Shakespeare.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
The Four Hags of the Apocalypse Eat Salad at their General Meeting
A black comedy about female self-image.
- About 10 minutes
- 4 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Franz Kafka Cancels His Cell Phone Plan
A modern absurdist play that puts elements from three of Franz Kafka’s works into the context of the everyday absurdities of our 21st century lives.
- About 25 minutes
- 5 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 17 pages
Hairball
A light vignette play about our obsession with hair. Flexible casting.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 5 F, Expandable to 14M+27F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 27 pages
Hamlette
Hamlet is played by a girl in this twisty-turny comedic interpretation of the classic Danish tale.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 13
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 20 pages
Huge Hands
A scrawny teenaged boy envisions the perfect way to fight back.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 8 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
