Parenting/Family-Themed Play Scripts for Schools
Among Friends and Clutter
by Lindsay Price
This character-driven piece explores the most important relationships in life: friends, family, and love.
- About 60 minutes
- 3 M + 4 W, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 43 pages
As You Like It
cutting and notes by John Minigan from the original by Shakespeare
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's love filled comedy.
- About 45 minutes
- 9 M + 4 W + 6 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for Middle Schools & High Schools
- 27 pages
Baalzebub
by Rachel Atkins
Will they establish civility or fall apart?
- About 80 minutes
- 1 M + 11 W, Easily expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 71 pages
Baalzebub - One Act Version
by Rachel Atkins
Will they establish civility or fall apart?
- About 35 minutes
- 11 W, Easily expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Bad Taste in Boys
by Jeffrey Harr
Rachel has bad taste in boys: Jerry with the forehead tattoos, Nicky with the prison sentence, and Ed with the "being a zombie" thing.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 3 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
The Baloney, the Pickle, the Zombies, and Other Things I Hide From My Mother
by Bradley Walton
Trevor is in the basement experimenting. He wants to build an army of zombies... by bringing baloney to life. Will his plan work before the expiry date?
- About 30 minutes
- 1 W + 7 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 34 pages
Beauty and the Bee
by Lindsay Price
Catherine is a beauty queen. Cosette is a homeschooled spelling bee champion. Two sisters could not be farther apart. When their worlds collide, sparks fly.
- About 38 minutes
- 2 M + 6 W + 9 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 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
Boat
by Lindsay Price
In this one-act middle school vignette play, characters come face-to-face with the fact that there are other people in their boat. Some are different. Some only seem different.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 7 W + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 32
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 35 pages
Body Body
by Lindsay Price
Madeline has body issues. So much so that her different body parts are coming to life and talking back. But Madeline is tired of feeling bad about her body.
- About 60 minutes
- 2 M + 4 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 54 pages
Body Body: Competition Length Version
by Lindsay Price
Madeline has body issues. So much so that different body parts are coming to life and talking back. A shorter version of this body image play.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 4 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 54 pages
Bottle Baby
by Lindsay Price
Beeb is a young recovering alcoholic. But the recovery isn't going so well.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Box
by Lindsay Price
A middle school vignette play about the boxes we find ourselves in.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 6 W + 9 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 35 pages
A Box of Puppies
by Billy Houck
We can all relate to feeling small in a big world. The characters in A Box of Puppies share their insecurities, their frailties and how they cope.
- 2 M + 2 W + 10 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 31 pages
Building Blocks
by Jeffrey Harr
A boy and a girl share words of wisdom straight from their parents' mouths.
- About 15 minutes
- 2 M + 2 W
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools & High Schools
- 11 pages
Building Blocks, Virtually
by Jeffrey Harr
A boy and a girl share words of wisdom straight from their parents' mouths.
- About 15 minutes
- 2 M + 2 W
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Carrying the Calf
by Shirley Barrie
A teenager fed-up with being bullied drags her reluctant friend to a self-defence class.
- About 54 minutes
- 4 W
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 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
