Play Scripts for Schools set in Abstract setting
Alice
adapted by Lindsay Price from Lewis Carroll
An adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic book. Practical solutions to all special effects. A magical trip to Wonderland!
- About 45 minutes
- 2 M + 3 W + 8 Any Gender, Plus Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 27 pages
La Ansiedad es Naranja
by Lindsay Price
A Spanish translation of the vignette play Anxiety is Orange.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 7 W + 12 Any Gender, Doubling possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools & High Schools
- 24 pages
Anxiety is Orange
by Lindsay Price
Join the characters in this vignette play as they navigate the world, each other, and the greens, greys, blues, reds, pinks, yellows, and oranges around them.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 7 W + 12 Any Gender, Doubling possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools & High Schools
- 23 pages
Arctic Adventure Theatre: The Case of the Crazed Crashers
by Matthew Webster
A big fun online-friendly show in the style of a radio serial.
- About 35 minutes
- 3 M + 4 W + 13 Any Gender
- Radio Play
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
The Art of Rejection
by Christian Kiley
An avant-garde look at the price of popularity.
- About 20 minutes
- 1 M + 1 W + 14 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Backspace
by Lindsay Price
In this world writing is a struggle, a battle, a war. Backspace explores personification and characterization like no other play.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 6 W + 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
betweenity
by Lindsay Price
This vignette play explores the beats, pauses, and neverending silences in conversation. An excellent class project with parts for everyone.
- About 30 minutes
- 4 M + 4 W + 4 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 29 pages
The Burgundy Letter
by Kirk Shimano
Hester90 is publicly shamed and shunned for a racial slur against another student.
- About 50 minutes
- 1 M + 2 W + 6 Any Gender, plus 0-100 “The Anonymous” characters
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 39 pages
Censorbleep
by Lindsay Price
The Bleep Bleep Girls know how teenagers are supposed to behave and how to deal with those who don't. An absurd look at censorship and independent thought.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 5 W + 5 Any Gender, plus optional extras
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 36 pages
Chaired
by Christian Kiley
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
Chemo Girl
by Christian Kiley
Camille is pulled into the video game world that mirrors her fight against cancer.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 W + 13 Any Gender, Doubling Possible, ensemble expandable to 26 or more
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Chemo Girl and Other Plays
by Christian Kiley
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
Drum Taps (Large Cast Version)
adapted by Lindsay Price from Walt Whitman
A theatrical adaptation of a selection of Walt Whitman's civil war poems. See the words, the war, the blood come to life.
- About 35 minutes
- 6 M + 14 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Drum Taps (Small Cast Version)
adapted by Lindsay Price from Walt Whitman
A theatrical adaptation of a selection of Walt Whitman's civil war poems. See the words, the war, the blood come to life.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 3 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Drum Taps
adapted by Lindsay Price from Walt Whitman
A theatrical adaptation of a selection of Walt Whitman's civil war poems. See the words, the war, the blood come to life.
- About 35 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 66 pages
The Factory
by Lindsay Price
Robots will always do their jobs better than real people. And rules are what make the Factory productive.
- About 30 minutes
- 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 30 pages
Flaky Lips
by Lindsay Price
Two girls live in two communities that have been separated by a wall for a hundred years.
- About 45 minutes
- 2 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 30 pages
Funhouse
by Lindsay Price
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
Grim and Gruesome Grimm
adapted by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
A playful and theatrical adaptation of Grimm's grimmest tales.
- About 60 minutes
- 8 M + 12 W + 21 Any Gender, Doubling Options
- Unit set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 57 pages
The Happiness Shop
by Lindsay Price
Why aren't middle school students full of smiles, hugs and hi-fives? They’re too young to have problems.
- About 35 minutes
- 6 M + 9 W + 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 43 pages
