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Technology-Themed Play Scripts for Schools

Backspace

by Lindsay Price

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 Burgundy Letter

by Kirk Shimano

Hester90 is publicly shamed and shunned for a racial slur against another student.

  • About 50 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F + 6 Any Gender, plus 0-100 “The Anonymous” characters
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 39 pages

Chemo Girl

by Christian Kiley

Camille is pulled into the video game world that mirrors her fight against cancer.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 3 F + 13 Any Gender, Doubling Possible, ensemble expandable to 26 or more
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Commence

by Christian Kiley

A group of students want to regain normalcy and recoup what they’ve lost as seniors: prom, school play, graduation. But nothing is normal.

  • About 15 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F + 9 Any Gender
  • Online Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools

The Date

by Steven Stack

Demons on a date are never good.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 M + 2 F
  • Virtual Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools

Distance Learning

by Christian Kiley

A play about trying to survive and thrive in a virtual classroom.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 13 Any Gender
  • Virtual Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Double Click

by Bradley Hayward

Young love blossoms when two teenagers flip open their laptops and start chatting.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

The Factory

by Lindsay Price

Robots will always do their jobs better than real people. And rules are what make the Factory productive.

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

Finding Jo March

by Laramie Dean

You should know right away that this is not a traditional adaptation of Little Women.

  • About 120 minutes
  • 5 M + 5 F + 1 Any Gender + 3 F or NB
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 85 pages

flawless leArnIngs

by Kirk Shimano

In a data-driven future, an AI teacher's chilling efficiency sparks a fight for authenticity and self-expression.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 6 Any Gender, plus optional additional students
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 20 pages

Frankenstein vs the Horrendous Goo

by Treanor Baring

A mix-up in the chemistry club creates a horrendous goo that takes over John Dalton School.

  • About 50 minutes
  • 2 M + 3 F + 6 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Franz Kafka Cancels His Cell Phone Plan

by Kirk Shimano

A modern absurdist play that puts elements from three of Franz Kafka’s works into the context of the everyday absurdities of our 21st century lives.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 5 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 17 pages

Friend Request

by Bradley Hayward

Thanks to a series of ill-fated friend requests, a doctored photo of a student spreads like wildfire among a group of teenagers.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 3 M + 4 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Inanimate

by Christian Kiley

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

Just Girls Talking

by Robert Wing

A drama for six women that will have your audience talking long after they leave the theatre.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 6 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 30 pages

Labeled

by Lindsay Price

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