Play Scripts for Schools featuring SEL
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a construct intended to provide students with the skills to confront challenges, build resilience and demonstrate empathy for others. These plays are great to use with your students to introduce SEL or deepen their understanding and awareness.
Sweep Under Rug
In the future the issue of poverty is solved through separation and subserviance. A teen causes trouble simply because she wants to better herself.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 1 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 34 pages
Sweep Under Rug: Competition Version
A competition-length version of Sweep Under Rug by Lindsay Price
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 3 Any Gender, plus ensemble
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 29 pages
Ten / Two
Ten plays for two actors. The plays can be performed individually or all together for a full evening of theatre. Excellent for the classroom or competition.
- About 100 minutes
- 3 M + 7 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 81 pages
Ten Minute Play Series: All Girls
A collection of short plays with interesting, engaging, vivid parts for girls.
- About 10 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 60 pages
Ten Minute Play Series: Be Challenged
A collection of short plays with challenging stories and complex characters.
- About 10 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 64 pages
Ten Minute Play Series: Girls & Guys
A collection of short plays that examines the relationships between girls and guys.
- About 10 minutes
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 65 pages
They Eat Sunshine, Not Zebras
Nothing stands in the way of the green grass. Until they wake up one morning to see a yellow dandelion in their midst.
- About 25 minutes
- 11 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 30 pages
Thought Traps
Ariane and Kate deal with people from their past who invade their head space. Will either be able to set themselves free?
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 5 F + 1 M or F + 2 Non-Binary
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 37 pages
Tick Talk
The teenagers in Tick Talk have much to say, but no way to say it. Characters are limited to only ONE WORD for the whole play. A great challenge for actors.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 6 F + 5 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 31 pages
The Tower of Tyler
Tyler is a star. But his sister is getting tired of keeping his secrets.
- About 25 minutes
- 3 M + 8 F + 7 Any Gender
- 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
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
Underwater
A powerful drama that dives into the life of a teenage competitive swimmer.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 8 Any Gender, Plus ensemble of enthusiasts
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 32 pages
Upon A Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic
In a tiny third class cabin Emma dreams of a new life in America. But when the Titanic hits an iceberg, that dream becomes a nightmare.
- About 45 minutes
- 1 M + 4 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 42 pages
Virtual Family
A look at a soothing world where complete dependency on technology takes away all ills. But is everything really perfect?
- About 30 minutes
- 5 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 28 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
