Play Scripts for Schools suitable for Pre-teen
Carrying the Calf
A teenager fed-up with being bullied drags her reluctant friend to a self-defence class.
- About 54 minutes
- 4 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
Censorbleep
The Bleep Bleep Girls know how teenagers are supposed to behave and how to deal with those who don't. An absurd look at censorship and independent thought.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 5 F + 5 Any Gender, plus optional extras
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 36 pages
Chaired
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
Characters Behaving Badly
This vignette play asks students to look at the concept of what it means to be “good” and “bad.”
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F + 5 Any Gender + 1 Trans Woman
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Chemo Girl
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
Chemo Girl and Other Plays
A collection of plays that examine the impact of cancer as seen through the eyes of teenagers. Can be performed as a full length or one acts.
- About 90 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 70 pages
Chicken. Road.
A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered questions as they try to understand why someone who has it all would kill themselves. Powerful monologues.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 13 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Chicken. Road. Competition Version
A competition-length version of Chicken. Road. by Lindsay Price
- About 35 minutes
- 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 25 pages
Christmas in July
The calendar days are all in a tizzy. The New Year better fix this mess and fix it quick.
- About 20 minutes
- 20 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
Christmas in July: Two Holiday One Act Plays
Two Christmas plays. Baby New Year rearranges the calendar in Christmas in July. Christmas is in jeopardy in What do you do when the elves have the flu?
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
- 36 pages
Cinderella's Crunchy Christmas Cake
It's Cinderella's first Christmas in the castle. But her step-sisters have a dastardly plan to ruin the holidays.
- About 45 minutes
- 3 M + 7 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 35 pages
Circo del Olimpo
A Spanish translation of the play Circus Olympus.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 9 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 63 pages
Circus Olympus
The Greek Geek Circus has come to town with a ton of myths to share. A gleeful celebration with a large cast expansion, parts for all and a choice of length.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 9 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 63 pages
Claque Attack: a clapping contemplation on the nature of applause
Do you control the audience or does the audience control you?
- About 35 minutes
- 37 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
Close Encounters of the Undead Kind
Three ghoulishly delightful plays.
- About 60 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 59 pages
Cobweb Dreams
Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.
- About 80 minutes
- 2 M + 17 F + 7 Any Gender
- Unit Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 86 pages
Cobweb Dreams - One Act Version
Cobweb dreams of a different life, away from Titania's train.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 12 F + 5 Any Gender
- Unit set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 pages
Completely, Absolutely Normal: Vignettes About LGBTQ+ Teens
Ten interconnected vignettes with LGBTQ+ themes.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 5 F + 8 M or F + 1 Trans Man
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
Constantly, Incessantly, All The Time
A young girl examines the backpack of her life.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Dead Men Don't Carry Handbags
Real life and fiction collide as radio show detective Steve Powell finds himself in the middle of a hot handbag case in cold blood. Will his fake detective skills win the day?
- About 25 minutes
- 9 M + 5 F, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
