Self-image-Themed Play Scripts for Schools
6ft Scenes
A collection of 15 scenes in which no two characters get within 6ft of each other.
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Agatha Rex
A modern adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone set in a high school.
- About 75 minutes
- 9 M + 10 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 72 pages
Among Friends and Clutter
This character-driven piece explores the most important relationships in life: friends, family, and love.
- About 60 minutes
- 3 M + 4 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 43 pages
Anger Management
Life in the afterworld sucks for Juliet and Ophelia. And they're not afraid to tell you where to shove your decorative pot holder.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Anonymous
Anonymous is a story of every teenager: trying to fit in, trying to belong, trying to fall in love. It's hard to be an individual when you're trying to survive.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 15 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 32 pages
La Ansiedad es Naranja
A Spanish translation of the vignette play Anxiety is Orange.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 7 F + 12 Any Gender, Doubling possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 24 pages
Anxiety is Orange
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 F + 12 Any Gender, Doubling possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Apostrophe's
A silly comedy about how the misuse of apostrophes are ruining the lives of students. Flexible casting, audience participation, and fun staging.
- About 40 minutes
- 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
The Art of Rejection
An avant-garde look at the price of popularity.
- About 20 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 14 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Backspace
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 F + 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
The Battle of Image vs Girl
One Girl. One Mirror. Against the world.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 15 pages
Being Bianca: The Semi-Complete Guide
Bianca wants to help everyone be the best they can be. Well, she wants everyone to be just like her. Because what's better than being Bianca? Huge cast comedy.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 10 F + 38 Any Gender, Doubling and Tripling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
betweenity
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 F + 4 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 29 pages
The Big Lie
As a teacher and student square off, one reveals a secret about the other.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Boat
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 F + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 32
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 35 pages
Body Body
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 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 54 pages
Body Body: Competition Length Version
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 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 54 pages
Bottle Baby
Beeb is a young recovering alcoholic. But the recovery isn't going so well.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Box
A middle school vignette play about the boxes we find ourselves in.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 6 F + 9 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 35 pages
A Box of Puppies
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 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 31 pages
