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Swoop Lindsay Price Play Script

Swoop

adapted by Lindsay Price from The Birds by Aristophanes
Comedy Classical Adaptation

Driven by a desire for total freedom, two fed-up clowns escape the city to build a city in the sky with the birds. But what happens when a clown decides they want total control?

  • About 45 minutes
  • 3 M + 2 F + 13 Any Gender, Plus Chorus of Birds. Doubling Possible.
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
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Ten / Two Lindsay Price Play Script

Ten / Two

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Drama Student Directors

Ten plays for two actors. The plays can be performed individually or all together for a full evening of theatre. Excellent for the classroom or competition.

  • About 100 minutes
  • 3 M + 7 F + 10 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 81 pages
This collection contains Quippage, The Big Lie, Pretty Girl Plain Girl, Santa Runs A Sweat Shop, Ms. Spitspot’s Spick and Span Play Place, My Father Went to Switzerland and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt, Time, What Is It?, The Last Dance, Ten Minutes, Ten Minutes, Ten Minutes, Ten Minutes, and The Itsy-Bitsy Spider Or Else
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Ten Minute Play Series: All Girls Lindsay Price Play Script

Ten Minute Play Series: All Girls

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Drama Character Study

A collection of short plays with interesting, engaging, vivid parts for girls.

  • About 10 minutes
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 60 pages
This collection contains Sandy is an Eggplant, Shannon is a Pretty Girl, Slow Songs Make Me Puke, Lies, Anger Management, Fight Over Fuchsia, and See the Light
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Ten Minute Play Series: Be Challenged Lindsay Price Play Script

Ten Minute Play Series: Be Challenged

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Drama Character Study

A collection of short plays with challenging stories and complex characters.

  • About 10 minutes
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 64 pages
This collection contains Bottle Baby, Juice Box, Hall Pass, Oh Chad, You, and Sunday Lunch
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Ten Minute Play Series: Girls & Guys Lindsay Price Play Script

Ten Minute Play Series: Girls & Guys

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Drama Character Study

A collection of short plays that examines the relationships between girls and guys.

  • About 10 minutes
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 65 pages
This collection contains Swimming With Sins, Girls and Boys, Blue Sky, Normal vs Weird, Thief, My Hero, and Weird
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That One Book About You-Know-What Kirk Shimano Play Script

That One Book About You-Know-What

by Kirk Shimano
Dramedy

When students break into a sealed school library to uncover why books are being banned, their stolen reading of a redacted school board transcript collides with Moby-Dick, revealing how a crusading parent and Captain Ahab share the same dangerous obsession, and how censorship turns stories into weapons.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F + 7 Any Gender, Plus Angry Parents and Intrepid Sailors
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 21 pages
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Theatrefolk's Ten-Minute Play Collection Lindsay Price Play Script

Theatrefolk's Ten-Minute Play Collection

by Lindsay Price
Comedy Drama Student Directors

A collection of ten minute plays.

  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 55 pages
This collection contains The Four Hags of the Apocalypse Eat Salad at their General Meeting, Walls, Liver for Breakfast, Paper Thin, and Football Romeo (Ten Minute Version)
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Thought Traps Lindsay Price Play Script

Thought Traps

by Lindsay Price
Dramedy

Ariane and Kate deal with people from their past who invade their head space. Will either be able to set themselves free?

  • About 35 minutes
  • 2 M + 5 F + 1 M or F + 2 Non-Binary
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 37 pages
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Through the Looking-Glass Lindsay Price Play Script

Through the Looking-Glass

adapted by Lindsay Price from Lewis Carroll
Comedy Choral Work Classical Adaptation

Alice is back in Wonderland and looking to become Queen. This adaptation is a fantastical physical journey for both actor and audience.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 3 M + 3 F + 7 Any Gender, + Wonderland Ensemble
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 38 pages
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Tough City, Prone to Rain Alan Haehnel Play Script

Tough City, Prone to Rain

by Alan Haehnel
Comedy

A noir play featuring the ace detectives from the Broadly Speaking Detective Agency.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 10 M + 5 F + 10 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 29 pages
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The Truth or Dare Sisterhood Jeffrey Harr Play Script

The Truth or Dare Sisterhood

by Jeffrey Harr
Comedy

A group of misfit teens at a chaotic sleepover must navigate identity, friendship, and loyalty when a newcomer with big secrets joins their sisterhood.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 1 M + 5 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 31 pages
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Tumblefur Bradley Hayward Play Script

Tumblefur

by Bradley Hayward
Comedy

A sweet teenage girl takes her dog for a walk in the park and discovers that there is something exciting around every corner.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Tuna Fish Eulogy Lindsay Price Play Script

Tuna Fish Eulogy

by Lindsay Price
Drama Character Study Choral Work

The tragedy of a young boy's death is examined. Written in the Ladder play format the text runs in vertical columns for fuller choral work.

  • About 40 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F + 1 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 40 pages
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Typecast Amanda Murray Cutalo Play Script

Typecast

by Amanda Murray Cutalo
Comedy Backstage Comedy

Students have all mysteriously been cast in the “wrong” roles.

  • About 60 minutes
  • 7 F + 2 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 42 pages
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Underwater Lindsay Price Play Script

Underwater

by Lindsay Price
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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Upon A Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic Kathleen Donnelly Play Script

Upon A Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic

by Kathleen Donnelly
Drama Character Study

In a tiny third class cabin Emma dreams of a new life in America. But when the Titanic hits an iceberg, that dream becomes a nightmare.

  • About 45 minutes
  • 1 M + 4 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 42 pages
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Waiting Room Christian Kiley Play Script

Waiting Room

by Christian Kiley
Drama Character Study Issue-Based

A group of teenage cancer patients wait to hear about their progress. A bond is created as they discover their similarities and eccentricities.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 4 M + 7 F + 1 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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The Waking Moment Bradley Hayward Play Script

The Waking Moment

by Bradley Hayward
Drama Character Study Issue-Based

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 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 27 pages
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Walls Lindsay Price Play Script

Walls

by Lindsay Price
Drama Character Study Experimental Form

An abstract look at generational barriers.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 M + 2 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
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Water. Gun. Argument. Alan Haehnel Play Script

Water. Gun. Argument.

by Alan Haehnel
Drama Issue-Based

A squirt gun would never be mistaken for a real gun, right?

  • About 40 minutes
  • 4 M + 8 F + 37 Any Gender, Using doubling, the play could be performed with as few as 18 actors
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 30 pages
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