Self-image-Themed Play Scripts for Schools
Funhouse
This middle school play looks at the bullied, the bully, and the bystander through mostly non-verbal vignettes.
- About 30 minutes
- 4 M + 16 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
The Gift
A teen transforms from shallow and selfish to giving and selfless. How did it happen? A wonderful holiday play inspired by The Gift of the Magi.
- About 90 minutes
- 4 M + 13 F + 5 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 96 pages
Girls and Boys
A football player freaks out when his math tutor turns out to be a girl.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Hairball
A light vignette play about our obsession with hair. Flexible casting.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 5 F, Expandable to 14M+27F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 27 pages
Hall Pass
No hall pass? No entry. No matter what you say. No matter what you do. No matter what history you bring up.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Hamlet
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's tragic tale of murder, ghosts and revenge.
- About 60 minutes
- 15 M + 9 F, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 47 pages
The Happiness Shop
Why aren't middle school students full of smiles, hugs and hi-fives? They’re too young to have problems.
- About 35 minutes
- 6 M + 9 F + 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 43 pages
Hoodie
This middle school vignette play examines self-image and appearance.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 7 F, Expandable to 18F 13M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 38 pages
Huge Hands
A scrawny teenaged boy envisions the perfect way to fight back.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 8 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Humbug High: A Contemporary Christmas Carol
A modern take on the classic Dickens tale. Eddie Scrooge is a 17-year-old Bah Humbug of a guy. Till one Christmas Eve when three ghosts change his life.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 13 F, Expandable to 11M 20F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 63 pages
Inanimate
Life is a little different for Ani. She talks to inanimate objects and the object talk back. Is she living in a happy, carefree kids’ show or is it something more serious?
- About 25 minutes
- 2 F + 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 18 pages
Jealousy Jane: Competition Version
A jealous teen battles a literal monster that shadows her every move, forcing her to decide whether to let it consume her life or find the courage to break free.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 4 F + 2 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
Juice Box
Two very prim and proper young ladies are no match for the power of juice in a box.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Labeled
We label people every day. We’ve done it in the past, we’ll do it in the future.
- About 35 minutes
- 3 M + 6 F + 15 Any Gender + 1 Trans Man, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 33 pages
Layers
Step inside Robin’s world as he grapples with his conscience and his anti-conscience. And then deeper still as the writer tries to figure out an ending... which he may not be able to do if he’s not actually the writer.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 1 F + 14 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 36 pages
Lazy Eye
Two eyeballs get bent out of shape while defending their half of a teenager's brain.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Letters
For many wars, letters home were the only form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones. This play brings those letters to life.
- About 25 minutes
- 9 M + 12 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Life, Off Book
What happens when Ophelia and Jeb have to tear themselves away from the script and live life off book?
- About 35 minutes
- 5 M + 3 F + 10 Any Gender, Plus ensemble
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 33 pages
Liver for Breakfast
Three siblings agonize over meeting their father's new girlfriend.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Look Me in the Eye
In the future teenagers are obedient and polite. But this behaviour comes at a price. A thought-provoking harrowing tale.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F + 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 23 pages
