Play Scripts for Schools for Competitions
Chaired
Potential sits centre stage in a chair. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just stand up...
- About 20 minutes
- 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Characters Behaving Badly
This vignette play asks students to look at the concept of what it means to be “good” and “bad.”
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F + 5 Any Gender + 1 Trans Woman
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Chemo Girl
Camille is pulled into the video game world that mirrors her fight against cancer.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 F + 13 Any Gender, Doubling Possible, ensemble expandable to 26 or more
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Chemo Girl and Other Plays
A collection of plays that examine the impact of cancer as seen through the eyes of teenagers. Can be performed as a full length or one acts.
- About 90 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 70 pages
Chicken. Road.
A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered questions as they try to understand why someone who has it all would kill themselves. Powerful monologues.
- About 45 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Chicken. Road. Competition Version
A competition-length version of Chicken. Road. by Lindsay Price
- About 35 minutes
- 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 25 pages
Circo del Olimpo
A Spanish translation of the play Circus Olympus.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 9 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 63 pages
Circus Olympus
The Greek Geek Circus has come to town with a ton of myths to share. A gleeful celebration with a large cast expansion, parts for all and a choice of length.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 9 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 63 pages
Clowns with Guns (A Vaudeville)
The question everyone’s asking is “Am I walking out alive today?”
- About 25 minutes
- 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 22 pages
Cobweb Dreams
Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.
- About 80 minutes
- 2 M + 17 F + 7 Any Gender
- Unit Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 86 pages
Cobweb Dreams - One Act Version
Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 12 F + 5 Any Gender
- Unit set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 pages
The Comedy of Errors
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's comedy about mistaken identity.
- About 60 minutes
- 5 M + 5 F + 8 Any Gender, + jailers, officers, and attendants, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 41 pages
Completely, Absolutely Normal: Vignettes About LGBTQ+ Teens
Ten interconnected vignettes with LGBTQ+ themes.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 5 F + 8 M or F + 1 Trans Man
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
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
Dead Highway
In a world ravaged by a viral apocalypse, six teenagers must fight the undead and their own fracturing friendships to survive.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 5 F, plus Several Zombies
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 30 pages
Dead Men Don't Carry Handbags
Real life and fiction collide as radio show detective Steve Powell finds himself in the middle of a hot handbag case in cold blood. Will his fake detective skills win the day?
- About 25 minutes
- 9 M + 5 F, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Dead Men Don't Do Radio Plays
Put together a SFX crew and bring the radio sounds to life.
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 59 pages
Dead Men Don't Jaywalk
A dead body jaywalks in front of radio-star-turned-movie-star detective Steve Powell. When a lady friend gets the blame, Steve puts himself on the case.
- About 25 minutes
- 4 M + 5 F, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
A Deep, Poetic Journey Into Something
Jane wants to break out of her box. Colour cows green and the sky purple. She wants a deep poetic journey into something. The problem is she has no idea where to start.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 4 F + 6 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 25 pages
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
