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Play Scripts for Children’s Theatre – Plays for Children to Perform
Play scripts for children’s theatre and young actors with easy dialogue and simple sets. Engaging stories that children love to perform. Children’s drama play scripts need to have flexible casting for large or small groups or school drama groups. Scripts for children on this site have short scenes and short dialogues for easy learning. Find funny plays and play scripts with a moral.
Discover class play scripts, scripts for drama class, short scripts for drama class. Comedies, dramas, dramedies with themes to engage, entertain and educate children.
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A Pastor’s Tale – The True Story of Silent Night
$11.97 – $60.00Price range: $11.97 through $60.00A one-act Christmas comedy - a play with live music for young actors, telling the story of how the Christmas song "Silent Night" came to be written. Set in Oberndorf, Austria in 1818, the play is staged with live guitar in a Readers Theatre format. Memorized historical vignettes are combined with a straight-forward Christmas reading. But it soon goes "off-book" as student readers question the truth of the text they're reading, and they end up squabbling on stage among themselves. Just when their performance seems doomed, Josef Mohr remembers a short poem he had been writing—Silent Night. -
Alice in Wonderland
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00A delightful, one-act play script adapted from the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Staying true to the original, this adaptation for the stage brings all the characters of the original Wonderland to life. Great for classrooms with a diverse student body, for children's theater, competitions and for reader's theater. -
Alice Through the Looking Glass
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00Alice takes the plunge yet again in this madcap one-act comedy. A glorious romp for the stage, the world behind the mirror leads her to a realm where everything is backward. Sense is nonsense. Backwards is forwards. The faster you run, the further behind you get. Easily performed either in the classroom or on stage. A delight for school drama groups with diverse casting challenges. Downloadable PDF's for purchase available. -
Alice! In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
$13.70 – $275.00Price range: $13.70 through $275.00This madcap full-length comedy chases Alice both down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass. Two 45-minute acts of mayhem and upside –down logic provides roles for all students. Mirror the logic and language of today’s global circus. Great opportunity for doubling. -
Baba Yaga Acts Up
$11.97 – $50.00Price range: $11.97 through $50.00Six short interactive plays portray a whacky witch who is more comic than frightening. The ethnic flavor of the plays appeals to all audiences. Three episodes run about an hour; six episodes are included to mix and match depending on the needs of the young audience to create a one-act play script for Children's Theater and Community Theater. -
Charles Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol
$13.70 – $279.00Price range: $13.70 through $279.00This large-cast play with a variable cast, preserves the original story of A Christmas Carol while revealing the story of its author Charles Dickens. Two families, one fictional, one historical, find their way to a brighter New Year for themselves and others around them. God Bless Us Everyone. Great for school, community, LORT, and professional theatres for a new twist on an old tale. -
Charming Princes and Wicked Queens
$11.00 – $13.95Price range: $11.00 through $13.95Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White Script Collection
Adaptations, by Mickey Coburn, of three popular fairytales, have been produced, to great acclaim, in children's theaters, as well as classrooms. These adaptations have unique characters among their more familiar companions to give more casting options and more roles. First produced, then toured, by the Boston Children’s Theatre, directed by Mickey Coburn. -
Cinderella
$13.70 – $265.00Price range: $13.70 through $265.00Cinderella Comedy Play Script - Meet the feisty take-charge Cinderella!
This full-length comedy version of Cinderella features delightfully nasty stepsisters and a fierce Cinderella, in addition to several original characters. This is a play for children of all ages. Easily performed by a children's theater, or by teen or college drama groups, it has possible casting for young actors as well. -
Cinderella, Boots, Class & a Little Sass
$11.97 – $75.00Price range: $11.97 through $75.00A Musical country and western version of Cinderella. In this musical one-act for kids, the Prince is a Cowboy and Cinderella meets and lassos her handsome prince. A modernised parody version of Cinderella classic kid's tale by Lori M. Myers with music by Ray Rhoads. To be performed by 5-7 adults or teens for children. -
EveryKid
$11.97 – $55.00Price range: $11.97 through $55.00With roots in the morality play, EVERYMAN, this fun participatory play for children by Gillettte Elvgren, depicts the adventures of two contemporary kids, Everygirl and Everyboy as they explore some of the temptations of our American culture. The kids decide they don't need each other and take off separately into the adult worlds of Moneyland, Beautyland, Factland and Success City. Can be performed for and by children. -
Herschel and Happy
$11.97 – $50.00Price range: $11.97 through $50.00A very popular one-hour play for children, consists of 3 short plays which follow two wandering friends who can’t stay out of mischief. Highly participatory for a younger audience. Written for children, to be performed by adults. The show toured for five years in professional production. Tours easily with simple sets, costumes, and props. Downloadable, printable PDF available. -
Macbeth for Youth
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00A thrilling one-act adaptation for children of Shakespeare’s harrowing story of the ambitious Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Greed and ambition are emphasized. The role of the Porter is expanded to give more comic relief. The Porter and the Witches serve as intermediaries with the play and the audience. Makes the story fully accessible to a younger audience. -
Midsummer Night’s Dream for Youth
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00In this one-act adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, four players in a traveling clown troupe wake up one morning to discover that they have been abandoned by the other members of the company. That evening they are required to perform A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM before the local Squire and they have to madly re-invent the play so that it can be done with four clowns. -
Numbers Have Feelings
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00What if numbers could feel? Does a number feel diminished when it is subtracted? Originally written for a math-tutoring business open house, this short script is perfect as a classroom or meeting diversion. -
Oliver Twist
$13.70 – $170.00Price range: $13.70 through $170.00Oliver Twist Stage Script for Schools, Colleges and Communities
A mischevious comedy adaptation of Oliver Twist. Funny and fierce, with flexible cast, this play can be performed anywhere from the classroom to the professional stage. True to Charles Dickens’ classic novel - entertaining, touching, and comically socially relevant. Free Sample to read. -
Original Relocation
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.