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Adolescence-Themed Play Scripts for Schools
Have You Heard?
This monologue-based play explores what happens when rumours and secrets spin out of control. What makes a secret more powerful: when it's true or a lie?
- About 45 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 24 pages
Heirlooms
Tara and Dane find themselves in possession of the legendary “hook hand” and learn that “finders keepers” is not always what it’s cracked up to be.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 2 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Home of the Brave
An excellent character-driven piece for middle school students. Inspired by hundreds of interviews with those associated by all branches of the service.
- About 30 minutes
- 4 M + 4 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Hoodie
This middle school vignette play examines self-image and appearance.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 7 F, Expandable to 18F 13M
- Simple Set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 38 pages
The Hope and Heartache Diner
Diners are a special place. You can get your coffee, fall in love, and find light when the world is dark.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 7 F + 3 Any Gender
- Unit set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 66 pages
The Hope and Heartache Diner - One Act Version
A One Act version of The Hope and Heartache Diner
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 5 F + 7 Any Gender
- Unit set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
Horror Movie 101: Failing Can Be Deadly
A collection of five hauntingly humorous tales.
- About 55 minutes
- 5 M + 16 F, double and triple casting possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 53 pages
Horror Movie 102: Failing Just Got Deadlier
A follow-up to the very popular Horror Movie 101!
- About 60 minutes
- 7 M + 14 F + 1 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Huge Hands
A scrawny teenaged boy envisions the perfect way to fight back.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 8 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Humbug High: A Contemporary Christmas Carol
A modern take on the classic Dickens tale. Eddie Scrooge is a 17-year-old Bah Humbug of a guy. Till one Christmas Eve when three ghosts change his life.
- About 70 minutes
- 6 M + 13 F, Expandable to 11M 20F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 63 pages
Inanimate
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
Isolation
Karen wants to have one more get together with her sister and some of their friends before she graduates. But an unexpected (and unseen) guest is waiting for all of them.
- About 13 minutes
- 5 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Jealousy Jane
Jane is a jealous girl. So much so it's turned into a life-sized monster that follows her everywhere. What happens when Jealousy takes over your life?
- About 45 minutes
- 2 M + 2 F + 1 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 35 pages
Juice Box
Two very prim and proper young ladies are no match for the power of juice in a box.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Just Girls Talking
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
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
The Last Dance
Two am is never the right time to tell your best friend what you think of her while studying Algebra.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Layers
Step inside Robin’s world as he grapples with his conscience and his anti-conscience. And then deeper still as the writer tries to figure out an ending... which he may not be able to do if he’s not actually the writer.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 1 F + 14 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 36 pages
Lazy Eye
Two eyeballs get bent out of shape while defending their half of a teenager's brain.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Let Me In
Jazmine tries to get into the movie theatre, but the inspector has other ideas.
- About 10 minutes
- 3 M + 4 F + 2 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
