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Morality-Themed Play Scripts for Schools
Free: Competition Version
A competition-length version of Free by Lindsay Price.
- About 35 minutes
- 2 M + 5 F + 11 Any Gender + 2 M or F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 31 pages
The Fried Kobassa
A girl-heavy wacky camp comedy that centres on some missing luncheon meat.
- About 40 minutes
- 2 M + 9 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 30 pages
Funhouse
This middle school play looks at the bullied, the bully, and the bystander through mostly non-verbal vignettes.
- About 30 minutes
- 4 M + 16 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
The Girl on the Side of the Road
Cal and Jane end up stranded on a dark and lonely road. They make the unfortunate decision of helping a girl who only wants to get home to Mother.
- About 15 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Hamlet
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's tragic tale of murder, ghosts and revenge.
- About 60 minutes
- 15 M + 9 F, Doubling Possible
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 47 pages
Hamlet, Zombie Killer of Denmark
Denmark is plagued with zombies in this gruesomely comic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 2 F + 11 Any Gender, Plus Extras
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 36 pages
Hamlette
Hamlet is played by a girl in this twisty-turny comedic interpretation of the classic Danish tale.
- About 30 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 13
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 20 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
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
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
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
Letters
For many wars, letters home were the only form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones. This play brings those letters to life.
- About 25 minutes
- 9 M + 12 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Lies
A young girl slowly realizes the disheartening truth about her mother and sister.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
A Lighter Shade of Noir
A fabulously funny and high styling take on film noir.
- About 75 minutes
- 4 M + 5 F + 16 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 62 pages
Little Nell and the Mortgage Foreclosure
A delightful melodrama replete with broad comedy, memorable characters, and plenty of booing and hissing for the stovepipe-hat-wearing villain!
- About 45 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F
- Unit Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 30 pages
Look Me in the Eye
In the future teenagers are obedient and polite. But this behaviour comes at a price. A thought-provoking harrowing tale.
- About 25 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F + 2 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 23 pages
Lord of the Pies
A pie shop erupts into panic after Franny, a brash cat-lady, announces the arrival of the apocalypse. A Lord of the Flies parody.
- About 30 minutes
- 2 M + 10 F + 7 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 20 pages
Lose Not Thy Head
Joan has been sentenced to lose her head for impersonating her famous brother William Shakespeare.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 9 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 34 pages
Macbeth
A one act annotated version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition and murder.
- About 60 minutes
- 18 M + 6 F, Doubling Possible
- Interior and Exterior
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 33 pages
The Magic Diary of Mozambique
A magic diary grants wishes: Good grades, popular friends, lavish gifts. But there are consequences to these wishes.
- About 60 minutes
- 2 M + 8 F
- Unit Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 42 pages
