Issue-Based Plays
Body image, bullying, and suicide are only a few of the teen-centred issues explored in this category.
Pandemic Pancake
by Lindsay Price
How will you respond to this evolving new world?
- About 35 minutes
- 34 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Power Play
by Lindsay Price
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.
- About 55 minutes
- 2 M + 3 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
The Pregnancy Project
by Lindsay Price
A pregnancy project turns real when Lucy's test turns pink. No statistics. No preaching. Just well-drawn characters and an engaging story.
- About 60 minutes
- 5 M + 15 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 47 pages
Pressure
by Lindsay Price
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 W, Plus Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
Scenes from a Quarantine
by Lindsay Price
This vignette style play can be easily performed using an online platform and has a variety of scenes to address all student skill levels.
- About 25 minutes
- 21 Any Gender, Minimum of 4
- Online Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Shreds and Patches
by Robert Wing
A re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 2 W + 2 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 26 pages
Sixteen in 10 Minutes or Less
by Bradley Hayward
The lives of seven teenagers become intertwined in this humorous and oftentimes bittersweet collection of ten minute plays. Multiple lengths available.
- About 100 minutes
- 4 M + 5 W + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 13M+17W+3 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 88 pages
Split
by Bradley Hayward
Children of divorce are united through humor in this honest and theatrical look at the day to day reality of growing up in a family that's been torn apart.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 3 W + 4 Any Gender, Easily Expandable to 28
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 35 pages
Stressed
by Alan Haehnel
Stress is driving a teen quartet crazy - so much so they can't stop talking about it. This play is a symphony of sound and character.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 2 W + 1 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 22 pages
Sweep Under Rug
by Lindsay Price
In the future the issue of poverty is solved through separation and subserviance. A teen causes trouble simply because she wants to better herself.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 3 W + 1 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Virtual Family
by Christian Kiley
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
The Waking Moment
by Bradley Hayward
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 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 27 pages
Water. Gun. Argument.
by Alan Haehnel
A squirt gun would never be mistaken for a real gun, right?
- About 40 minutes
- 4 M + 8 W + 37 Any Gender, Using doubling, the play could be performed with as few as 18 actors
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 30 pages
We Are Masks
by Lindsay Price
We all wear a mask. What will happen when the world sees who you really are?
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 8 W + 5 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
Wellness Check
by Christian Kiley
Three characters struggle with wellness in uncertain times.
- About 15 minutes
- 3 Any Gender
- Online Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
With Liberty and Justice For All
by Jeyna Lynn Gonzales
Voices from a BLM protest.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 3 W + 3 Any Gender + 1 Trans M
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 20 pages
