Play Scripts for Schools using Contemporary costumes
Tumblefur
A sweet teenage girl takes her dog for a walk in the park and discovers that there is something exciting around every corner.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Tuna Fish Eulogy
The tragedy of a young boy's death is examined. Written in the Ladder play format the text runs in vertical columns for fuller choral work.
- About 40 minutes
- 1 M + 2 F + 1 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 40 pages
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's comedy filled with unrequited love, disguises, and a shipwreck.
- About 45 minutes
- 6 M + 3 F + 6 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
Typecast
Students have all mysteriously been cast in the “wrong” roles.
- About 60 minutes
- 7 F + 2 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 pages
Underneath
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
The Virtual Support Group from Hell
Wendy joins an online teen support group. However, she quickly discovers that the others are anything but typical.
- About 15 minutes
- 3 M + 5 F
- Virtual Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Wait Wait Bo Bait
A vignette play all about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy staging.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 M + 4 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 22 pages
Wait Wait Bo Bait (Middle School Edition)
A middle school vignette play about waiting. Great scenes, great characters, flexible casting, easy to stage.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 M + 4 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 22 pages
Waiting Room
A group of teenage cancer patients wait to hear about their progress. A bond is created as they discover their similarities and eccentricities.
- About 25 minutes
- 4 M + 7 F + 1 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
The Waking Moment
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
An abstract look at generational barriers.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Water. Gun. Argument.
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
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
We Open Tomorrow Night?!
A scripted talent show where YOU are the stars!
- About 90 minutes
- 4 M + 6 F + 4 Any Gender, Plus Acts
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 47 pages
We Open Tomorrow Night?! (One Act Version)
A competition-length version of We Open Tomorrow Night?!
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 6 F + 4 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
Weird
Internet Dating can be very weird. Especially when you don't tell the whole truth.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Wellness Check
Three characters struggle with wellness in uncertain times.
- About 15 minutes
- 3 Any Gender
- Online Performance
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
What do you do when the Elves have the flu?
The Elves can't eat, they can't sleep and they certainly can't work. And with Christmas around the corner, how will the toys get made?
- About 20 minutes
- 6 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
Wheels
A teenage boy tries to repair a beat-up old truck so that he can get away from his parents and their broken down marriage.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Will and Whimsy: Sixteen Dramatically Illustrated Sonnets of Shakespeare
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
