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Peer pressure-Themed Play Scripts for Schools

Sweep Under Rug

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

In the future the issue of poverty is solved through separation and subserviance. A teen causes trouble simply because she wants to better herself.

  • About 35 minutes
  • 1 M + 3 F + 1 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 34 pages

Teen Plays for Inclusive Classrooms

by Dara Murphy Canadian Author

Two royalty-free plays for your inclusive classroom

  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Ten / Two

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

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

Ten Minute Play Series: All Girls

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

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

  • About 10 minutes
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 60 pages

Ten Minute Play Series: Be Challenged

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

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, Hall Pass, Juice Box, Oh Chad, Sunday Lunch, and You

Ten Minute Play Series: Girls & Guys

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

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

  • About 10 minutes
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 65 pages

That One Book About You-Know-What

by Kirk Shimano Canadian Author

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

Theatrefolk's Ten-Minute Play Collection

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

A collection of ten minute plays.

  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 55 pages

They Eat Sunshine, Not Zebras

by Dara Murphy Canadian Author

Nothing stands in the way of the green grass. Until they wake up one morning to see a yellow dandelion in their midst.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 11 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools & High Schools
  • 30 pages

Thirteen in 10 Minutes or Less

by Bradley Hayward Canadian Author

From high-stakes board games to surviving terrible hotel waffles, a group of thirteen-year-olds tackle the messy realities of eighth grade in a series of ten-minute plays about the hilarious challenge of staying connected.

  • About 100 minutes
  • 4 M + 4 F, Expandable to 17M+16W+7 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools
  • 96 pages

The Tower of Tyler

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

Tyler is a star. But his sister is getting tired of keeping his secrets.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 3 M + 8 F + 7 Any Gender
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Underneath

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

Brittany wants to scream. Echo wants to shout. And Josie wants O-U-T, out.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 5 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Underwater

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

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

The Waking Moment

by Bradley Hayward Canadian Author

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

Walls

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

An abstract look at generational barriers.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 M + 2 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Water. Gun. Argument.

by Alan Haehnel

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

We Are Masks

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

We all wear a mask. What will happen when the world sees who you really are?

  • About 35 minutes
  • 4 M + 8 F + 5 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 35 pages

who are we, who we are

by Forrest Musselman

Addresses anxiety and depression in teens.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 3 M + 14 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Will and Whimsy: Sixteen Dramatically Illustrated Sonnets of Shakespeare

by Alan Haehnel

Shakespeare's Sonnets come alive in this play where modern scenes play hand in hand with the original text. Very flexible casting.

  • About 50 minutes
  • 8 Any Gender, Expandable to 35
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 43 pages

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 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools