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Classroom Study Guides

The following plays have free Classroom Study Guides available.

Use these to challenge students to deepen their understanding and connection to the plays they're studying.
Complete with pre-read questions and activities, close reading analysis, and post-read activities, these study guides allow you to provide an in-depth & theatrical learning experience.
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Characters Behaving Badly Lindsay Price Play Script

Characters Behaving Badly

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Vignettes Character Study Dramedy

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
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Commedia Chekhov Lindsay Price Play Script

Commedia Chekhov

adapted by Lindsay Price Canadian Author from Anton Chekhov
Comedy Classical Adaptation

Introduce your students to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov through the vibrant lens of Commedia dell’Arte.

  • About 70 minutes
  • 3 M + 7 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 70 pages
This collection contains The Anniversary, The Bear, and The Proposal
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Virtual Family Christian Kiley Play Script

Virtual Family

by Christian Kiley
Drama Issue-Based

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
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Ashland Falls Steven Stack Play Script

Ashland Falls

by Steven Stack
Character Study Melodrama Drama

Who will pay the price when the real world and the play collide?

  • About 90 minutes
  • 3 M + 11 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 82 pages
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Cobweb Dreams Lindsay Price Play Script

Cobweb Dreams

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Shakespeare Movement-based Comedy

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
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Clowns with Guns (A Vaudeville) Christopher Evans Play Script

Clowns with Guns (A Vaudeville)

by Christopher Evans
Black Comedy Issue-Based

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
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Have You Heard? Krista Boehnert Play Script

Have You Heard?

by Krista Boehnert Canadian Author
Drama Issue-Based Monologue-Friendly Plays

This monologue-based play explores what happens when rumours and secrets spin out of control. What makes a secret more powerful: when it's true or a lie?

  • About 45 minutes
  • 2 M + 3 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 24 pages
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The Blue and the Grey RS Paulette Play Script

The Blue and the Grey

by RS Paulette
Drama

This award-winning piece is haunting, exhilarating and theatrical.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 3 M + 4 F, Plus Students
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 34 pages
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Gothic Ghost Stories Lindsay Price Play Script

Gothic Ghost Stories

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Classical Adaptation Mystery Drama

A modern adaptation of Victorian ghost stories.

  • About 75 minutes
  • 17 M + 25 F + 7 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 66 pages
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Let Me In Sholeh Wolpé Play Script

Let Me In

by Sholeh Wolpé
Drama

Jazmine tries to get into the movie theatre, but the inspector has other ideas.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 3 M + 4 F + 2 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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who are we, who we are Forrest Musselman Play Script

who are we, who we are

by Forrest Musselman
Drama

Addresses anxiety and depression in teens.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 3 M + 14 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Mummu Kirk Shimano Play Script

Mummu

by Kirk Shimano Canadian Author
Comedy

A one act play inspired by an ancient Sumerian myth depicting one of the first Mesopotamian gods.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 4 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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The Burgundy Letter Kirk Shimano Play Script

The Burgundy Letter

by Kirk Shimano Canadian Author
Comedy Classical Adaptation Issue-Based

Hester90 is publicly shamed and shunned for a racial slur against another student.

  • About 50 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F + 6 Any Gender, plus 0-100 “The Anonymous” characters
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 39 pages
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Underwater Lindsay Price Play Script

Underwater

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Drama Character Study

A powerful drama that dives into the life of a teenage competitive swimmer.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 1 M + 3 F + 8 Any Gender, Plus ensemble of enthusiasts
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 32 pages
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Home of the Brave Lee Cataluna Play Script

Home of the Brave

by Lee Cataluna
Drama

An excellent character-driven piece for middle school students. Inspired by hundreds of interviews with those associated by all branches of the service.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 4 M + 4 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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Macbeth Lindsay Price Play Script

Macbeth

cutting and notes by Lindsay Price Canadian Author from the original by Shakespeare
Shakespeare in an Hour Shakespeare Drama

A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition and murder.

  • About 60 minutes
  • 18 M + 6 F, Doubling Possible
  • Interior and Exterior
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 33 pages
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Baalzebub - One Act Version Rachel Atkins Play Script

Baalzebub - One Act Version

by Rachel Atkins
Issue-Based Character Study Drama

Will they establish civility or fall apart?

  • About 35 minutes
  • 11 F, Easily expandable
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 34 pages
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Chicken. Road. Competition Version Lindsay Price Play Script

Chicken. Road. Competition Version

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Experimental Form Issue-Based Drama

A competition-length version of Chicken. Road. by Lindsay Price

  • About 35 minutes
  • 15 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 25 pages
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Football Romeo Lindsay Price Play Script

Football Romeo

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Comedy Character Study Classical Adaptation

A hilarious full length modern take on the clash between school cliques. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet.

  • About 75 minutes
  • 3 M + 7 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 76 pages
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Funhouse Lindsay Price Play Script

Funhouse

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author
Drama Experimental Form Issue-Based

This middle school play looks at the bullied, the bully, and the bystander through mostly non-verbal vignettes.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 4 M + 16 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 33 pages
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