Comedies
Make 'em laugh, make 'em smile with these comedic plays for your student performers.
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
Theatrefolk's Ten-Minute Play Collection
A collection of ten minute plays.
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 55 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
This Phone Will Explode at the Tone
A vignette play about communication. Great for classwork.
- About 20 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F, Expandable to 33
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 20 pages
Through the Looking-Glass
Alice is back in Wonderland and looking to become Queen. This adaptation is a fantastical physical journey for both actor and audience.
- About 35 minutes
- 3 M + 3 F + 7 Any Gender, + Wonderland Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 38 pages
ths phne 2.0: the next generation
A vignette play that looks at 21st century communication. Blog your innermost thoughts. Break up by text. Express your deepest emotions through LOL's and smilies.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F, Easily Expandable
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 27 pages
To Kill a Mocking Birdie
Birdie would like you to meet her parents: a goldfish and a moldy piece of bread. It's a perfectly crazy dinner party. Consider this your invitation.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 4 F + 4 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Tough City, Prone to Rain
A noir play featuring the ace detectives from the Broadly Speaking Detective Agency.
- About 35 minutes
- 10 M + 5 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 29 pages
The Tragicomedy of Julia Caesar
Sarah and Dave think it would be fun to direct a play for drama club. And they both love Julius Caesar. What could go wrong?
- About 82 minutes
- 5 M + 4 F + 22 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 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
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
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
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
The Wind in the Willows
A lively and theatrical adaptation of a wonderful classic.
- About 70 minutes
- 3 F + 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 61 pages
Winnie-the-Pooh
Join Pooh Bear, Piglet, and all their friends in the Hundred Acre wood.
- About 90 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 8 Any Gender, Additional Narrators
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
There is no place like home.
- About 95 minutes
- 5 M + 8 F + 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 85 pages
