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Play Scripts About Bullying
Plays about bullying serve an anti-bullying purpose. By bringing the bully, the bystander and the victim to the stage, students can see themselves and the roles they play in bullying scenarios and learn to appreciate the effect bullying has on victims and perpetrators. The Anti-bullying message is conveyed by direct emotional involvement between the audience and the characters.
Find play scripts about bullying in the family, politics, religion, sexuality, physical appearance.
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A Slippery Slope
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A middle-school teacher is in a war zone between two students when both their reports turn out to be about the Layson Albatross. Does she side with Davy whose report says that Layson couples raising their chicks are sometimes both female? Or does she come to Beth's defense when Beth wants to silence Davy's report as "fake news."
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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. -
An Evening With Joyce’s Women
$9.95 – $90.00Price range: $9.95 through $90.00A trilogy of one-act plays, The Boarding House, Eveline, and The Dead
Based on Dubliners by James Joyce; adapted for the stage to allow us to enter the lives of three Dublin women. Dublin society of the first decade of the 20th Century comes to life through the frustrations, fantasies, and follies of Irish women who are also victims and victimizers of their mates. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
DropOut
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00DropOut, a one-act comedy for teens, puts Norman Tubbs, a guidance counselor in charge of keeping high school kids in school, especially those that don't want to be there. The characters in the play find school a challenge for a variety of reasons-the impact of a divorce, clowning to deflect emotion and commitment, learning difficulties, and peer pressure.
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Group S.O.S. Male
$13.70 – $125.00Price range: $13.70 through $125.00This is the male version of a partner play also titled Group S.O.S. The S.O.S. stands for Survivors of Sexual Abuse. There is a female version and a script which includes both male and female versions. The separate versions are full-length plays in two acts, running about 95 minutes each. In Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, survivors of sexual abuse confront each other's strengths and weaknesses in the setting of group therapy sessions. Each character has his own story and his own secrets which lead to a redemptive past. -
I Am The Brother of Dragons
$16.95A collection of one-act plays for teens
Original plays by Gillette Elvgren. Teen suicide, drug abuse, school drop out, and peer pressure are among the teen challenges that form the substance of the dramas in these 50-minute plays. With simple sets, props, and masks, these teen plays provide a springboard for meaningful discussion. -
Independence Day
$11.00 – $30.00Price range: $11.00 through $30.00In these three short comedies for seniors by Marj O'Neill-Butler, characters of a certain age struggle against grown children, spouses, or former tormentors to maintain their own psychological and social independence. -
Kings and Pawns
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Kings and Pawns is a comic 10-minute play based on the story of David and Bathsheba--a contemporary-sounding look at the spoils of love and war. -
Off Our Rockers
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00This collection of madcap 10-minute comedies appeals to everyone from teens to seniors. Casts include elves, grumpy homophobic neighbors, and a troupe of historical characters come to life. -
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. -
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People R Ready
$11.95 – $150.00Price range: $11.95 through $150.00College students return to class after the pandemic to find love with a hint of betrayal that could end Alex and Savannah for good. Foreign exchange students find new friends at the drama club's spring musical audition. Can Toni lead this group through personal inhibitions and a lack of self-esteem with the magic of music? Working with Keith, Toni helps him learn to dance in his wheelchair igniting a mutual passion. The “People R Ready”—are YOU!!! -
The Boarding House
$11.97 – $55.00Price range: $11.97 through $55.00A one-act play, The Boarding House is a dramatic satire, by David.H. Klein, of the story by James Joyce. Mrs. Mooney, the owner of a boarding house of questionable reputation, exploits the wiles of her daughter Polly and the power of the Church to snare one of her more respectable boarders as her potential son-in-law. -
The Canterbury Tales
$13.70 – $170.00Price range: $13.70 through $170.00This full-length comedy play with music brings rapid-fire dialogue to an old classic. With a flexible cast, it is an excellent play for high school performances, college theaters, or community productions. Elvgren has selected the bawdiest and most satirical tales for this version. A sense of Chaucer's language is maintained but is made accessible to a modern audience. (Lead sheets available)