Absurd Play Scripts for 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
The Art of Rejection: Two One Act Plays
by Christian Kiley
R is the only letter in a sea of numbers. Potential sits in a chair. These two one acts - Art of Rejection and Chaired can be performed separately or together.
- 1 M + 1 W + 27 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 39 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
Chicken. Road.
by Lindsay Price
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 30 minutes
- 1 M + 1 W + 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Claque Attack: a clapping contemplation on the nature of applause
by Lindsay Price
Do you control the audience or does the audience control you?
- About 35 minutes
- 37 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
Clowns with Guns (A Vaudeville)
by Christopher Evans
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
darklight
by Lindsay Price
An examination of depression and anxiety in teens.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 4 W + 10 Any Gender, Plus THOUGHTS (10 to 20 actors)
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
Franz Kafka Cancels His Cell Phone Plan
by Kirk Shimano
A modern absurdist play that puts elements from three of Franz Kafka’s works into the context of the everyday absurdities of our 21st century lives.
- About 25 minutes
- 5 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 17 pages
Lord of the Pies
by Clint Snyder
A pie shop erupts into panic after Franny, a brash cat-lady, announces the arrival of the apocalypse. A Lord of the Flies parody.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 10 W + 7 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 20 pages
Malled: Two One Act Plays for Young Women
by Colleen Neuman
Many things happen in a mall. Heartbreak, Uncomfortable truths,True friendship, Cosmic questions with your french fries. Two plays. Great parts for girls.
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
No Horse Town
by Lindsay Price
For the young men of Heywood, crossing the street is as dangerous as going off to war. A highly stylized comedy.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 7 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
The Pretty Princess Dollhouse for Pretty Princesses
by Emma Fonseca Halverson
Gabi is suffering from metaphoric asthma. The walls are closing in and she can’t breathe.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 W
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 16 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
Virtual Platform
by Claire Broome
How can anyone make sense of a virtual platform?
- About 25 minutes
- 8 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
Yes, Virginia, There is a Virginia
by Colleen Neuman
An ordinary shopper survey takes absurd twists and turns for Virginia as she struggles to answer the surprisingly cosmic question: Is Ann Landers real?
- About 25 minutes
- 15 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
