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Play Scripts for College Student Actors
The listed playscripts for college students to perform avoid ” cuteness”. They reveal and question the darker aspects of human nature in a safe way and often with comedy.
Discover one-act comedy plays and full-length drama scripts for college and university students in theatre training programs and drama education. Many of the scripts are suitable for College readers’ theatre scripts.
Scripts for plays for performance by college students offer challenges for young actors. Many plays are suitable for college theater departments, theater classes and student drama groups.
The scripts are valuable plays for college students because they involve the audience in big questions of modern life, including drug misuse, sexual abuse, school shootings, faith, belief, racism, the environment, twists on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, famous marriages from history.
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Anecdotal Evidence
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A comedic look at how, as a society, we have become so dependent on double-blind studies that we can no longer make simple decisions. A quick journey thru history! -
Angel Band
$13.70 – $265.00Price range: $13.70 through $265.00Leaders of the snake-handling Signs Following Church in the hills of Appalachia are threatened by the snakes they handle to prove their Godliness and by the law enforcement and child welfare agencies of the surrounding community. They live side-by-side with the Blue People, a society of outcasts whose skin is marked by a blue skin tone. Into the mix comes Jay, a shy, possibly autistic, journalist intent on uncovering the secret world of these hidden cultures. -
ANGELs, Inc.
$13.70 – $16.97Price range: $13.70 through $16.97A zany full-length farce is a perfect change from traditional Christmas plays for schools, churches, and community theater. The film crew for ABC (Angel Broadcasting Company) is producing a special to celebrate the Nativity. Small cast, great for schools, youth drama groups, community theaters, and churches. Downloadable, printable PDF available. -
Bertha Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
$7.00 – $30.00Price range: $7.00 through $30.00A monologue by D.D. Delaney. The driver of a van for a retirement community takes us into the eerie world of possible illusion or delusion when Bertha, a passenger on his van, begins to describe some disturbing events. The van driver is also a journalist for an alternative press in this small town. Of course, he has to investigate, even knowing that most of his patients are mentally disturbed. The voices are narrated by the van driver, but may also be read by other actors. Great for seniors, middle school and high school competitions, and auditions. -
Between Trains
$13.70 – $160.00Price range: $13.70 through $160.00In this strangely magical play with songs, a woman wakes up in a train station someplace between Maybe and Nowhere. Everyone she meets is waiting for something or going somewhere, but she's just looking for a way out. The play explores how we get stuck and how we get unstuck – and what can happen in those crucial moments when how we respond makes all the difference . . . Great for site-specific theaters or professional theaters, as well as college and university venues. -
Blood Moon: Or, The Adventure of the Abducted Sorceress
$13.70 – $195.00Price range: $13.70 through $195.00The year is 1885. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are chatting in the parlor at 221B Baker Street when a strangely attired group of individuals enter, pleading for help. They say they’re from a traveling bazaar of magic and someone has kidnapped their impresario, Madame Vera. -
Brendan’s Journey
$13.70 – $60.00Price range: $13.70 through $60.00In this picaresque comedy/drama for 2 actors, Brendan and a companion journey in a small boat to the 'promised land over the waves.' Using props and costumes, the actors portray pivotal and conflicting characters from their past friendship. Gradually, they confront and resolve differences that threaten their relationship.Brendan's Journey is a play about relationships: with friends, with spouses, and with God. -
Broken Dolls
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00Broken Dolls tells the fictional stories of women- both international and domestic- who have been trafficked for sex work, domestic labor, hotel work, and agricultural work. Taking place in a waiting room at a social service facility, the play revolves around five female survivors of human trafficking who cross paths. Entrapped and isolated, five women come together to weave their narratives in a mix of monologue and dialogue, merging reality and memories of coping and longing. -
Candy and Toys
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A ten-page short play from a series of plays within a collection - Legacy of a Father - by playwright, Monique Franz. The script addresses the emotional toll on women raised without the love and affection of a father. Based on a real-life interview, the story highlights the negative impact of a culture that values sons over daughters, men over women. -
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. -
Daddy’s Silhouette
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00From her earliest memory, Quiana, an African American woman in her twenties, is desperate for the love of an absentee father, which carries into her adulthood. Her fear of abandonment bleeds into her marriage to Tommy, an easy-going seaman, who demonstrates saint-like patience with his wife’s chronic daddy issues. -
Dinner With Osmina
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“Dinner with Osmina” is the seventh installment in the Playroom series, and it finally features the whole family in one place! The anticipation of a nice family dinner bringing everyone together explodes because of an unexpected guest. -
Distant Survivors
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00In this poetic drama, we see the past through the eyes of a German-American who looks back on his ancestral heritage and tries to come to terms with it. He encounters voices and embodiments of World War II, like echoes from the past and tries to find answers where there are only shadows. Distant Survivors was conceived and adapted for the stage by director June Prager, based on Holocaust poetry by William Heyen. -
Drake Disappears
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“Drake Disappears” set in the kitchen, is the first installment in the Playroom series. When Drake goes missing during an everyday game of hide-and-seek, his older sister Marla discovers that he has slipped from our timeline and probably discovering the bay of San Francisco. Is he inadvertently today’s answer to Sir Francis Drake?
