Comedies
Make 'em laugh, make 'em smile with these comedic plays for your student performers.
Through the Looking-Glass
adapted by Lindsay Price from Lewis Carroll
Alice is back in Wonderland and looking to become Queen. This adaptation is a fantastical physical journey for both actor and audience.
- About 35 minutes
- 3 M + 3 W + 7 Any Gender, + Wonderland Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 38 pages
ths phne 2.0: the next generation
by Lindsay Price
A vignette play that looks at 21st century communication. Blog your innermost thoughts. Break up by text. Express your deepest emotions through LOL's and smilies.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 3 W, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 27 pages
To Kill a Mocking Birdie
by Clint Snyder
Birdie would like you to meet her parents: a goldfish and a moldy piece of bread. It's a perfectly crazy dinner party. Consider this your invitation.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 4 W + 4 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
The Tragicomedy of Julia Caesar
by Dave Hammers
Sarah and Dave think it would be fun to direct a play for drama club. And they both love Julius Caesar. What could go wrong?
- About 82 minutes
- 5 M + 4 W + 22 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
cutting and notes by John Minigan from the original by Shakespeare
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's comedy filled with unrequited love, disguises, and a shipwreck.
- About 45 minutes
- 6 M + 3 W + 6 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
Typecast
by Amanda Murray Cutalo
Students have all mysteriously been cast in the “wrong” roles.
- About 60 minutes
- 7 W + 2 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 pages
The Virtual Support Group from Hell
by Jeffrey Harr
Wendy joins an online teen support group. However, she quickly discovers that the others are anything but typical.
- About 15 minutes
- 3 M + 5 W
- Virtual Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Wait Wait Bo Bait
by Lindsay Price
A vignette play all about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy staging.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 M + 4 W, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 22 pages
Wait Wait Bo Bait (Middle School Edition)
by Lindsay Price
A middle school vignette play about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy to stage.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 M + 4 W, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 22 pages
We Open Tomorrow Night?!
by Michael Wehrli
A scripted talent show where YOU are the stars!
- About 90 minutes
- 4 M + 6 W + 4 Any Gender, Plus Acts
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 47 pages
We Open Tomorrow Night?! (One Act Version)
by Michael Wehrli
A competition-length version of We Open Tomorrow Night?!
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 6 W + 4 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
Will and Whimsy: Sixteen Dramatically Illustrated Sonnets of Shakespeare
by Alan Haehnel
Shakespeare's Sonnets come alive in this play where modern scenes play hand in hand with the original text. Very flexible casting.
- About 50 minutes
- 8 Any Gender, Expandable to 35
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 43 pages
The Wind in the Willows
adapted by Todd Espeland from Kenneth Grahame
A lively and theatrical adaptation of a wonderful classic.
- About 70 minutes
- 3 W + 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 61 pages
Winnie-the-Pooh
adapted by Lindsay Price from Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Join Pooh Bear, Piglet, and all their friends in the Hundred Acre wood.
- About 90 minutes
- 1 M + 1 W + 8 Any Gender, Additional Narrators
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
adapted by Laramie Dean from L. Frank Baum
There is no place like home.
- About 95 minutes
- 5 M + 8 W + 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
You're Cosplaying My Song
by Jeffrey Harr
Love conquers all, even for a Queen Elf and a Jedi in Omega Six.
- About 15 minutes
- 1 M + 1 W
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 9 pages
