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Description of this Script:Duration: 50-60 minutes Genre: comedy with optional music. Cast Size: 1 male lead, 2 any gender, many supporting roles, expandable animal choruses. Grade level: 1st-5th gr. (or m.s., h.s. or adult, esp. when playing for a children's audience; also can be intergenerational). Production ideas: included at the back. Thematic curriculum ideas: included at the back. Songs: optional, suggested Synopsis of the Story:A group of people loses the baby of one of their womenfolk w

Synopsis:Harriet Tubman is a short biographical play script showing scenes from the long and rich historical life of this Black American heroine from early childhood to her escape to freedom, to her days as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, chronicling just a few of her amazing adventures during the time she lead almost 300 people out of slavery. Description of this Script:Duration: 35 to 40 mins. Genre: historical drama Cast Size: 1 female lead, 5 male and 5 female supporting roles, narr

CES play scripts make producing your play a snap!Holly Day Tales: Plays for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa is a collection of 6 classroom-tested, original and heart-warming plays for the winter holidays. Each play comes with "production notes" (guidelines for costumes, scenery and staging) to make your directing/producing job easy. TESTIMONIAL !!"I had no problems downloading and have already made copies and read through the two I wanted to use with my students. I was just online and looked up

Synopsis:Juan Bobo, the comic hero from Puerto Rico, seems to somehow bungle everything he tries, yet his good heart always leads him on the right course. Here, Juan manages to save the Queen's necklace, unearth a plot by the palace thieves, and earn himself a place of wealth and respect in the King's esteem, all because he is interested in befriending some of the palace garden's nightingales. Description:This 25-minute play script is a comedy with a variety of parts for a full class-load of stu

Description of this Script:Duration: 45-60 mins. depending on the inclusion of songs and dances. Genre: fantasy, fairy tale Cast Size: Cast size for Act 1: 22. For a larger or smaller group, add non-speaking unicorn or fairy parts, or double up on the lines. Cast size for Act 2: also 22, including 9 speaking parts from Act 1. These may be doubled if a different group is doing Act 2, but may also be carried over. Separate classes may be included to do the suggested songs and dances. Grade level:

Let your students build their own self-esteem while at the same time seeing this folktale, of Latin American culture from the island of Cuba, come to life through their own performance. El Bizarron, though a peasant, has the strength not only of body but also of character to teach us that helping others, and not harming others, is the best way to real peace and happiness. Synopsis:The arrogant and rich "El Diablo" and his equally arrogant, vain wife Vanagloria take on a humble peasant servant ca

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Description:A delightful comedy, this play is good for upper elementary, middle and high school students. This 25-30 minute one-act features 3 strong male characters, 2 strong female characters, with many smaller supporting roles and a Greek chorus which is expandable in size, depending on the number of students to be cast. It can be intergenerational, as there are both strong adult and child roles. Production ideas for sets, costumes, etc.. are provided. Synopsis:When the God of the Underworld

Description:This hour-long one-act is actually 7 stories in one play, each of which can be performed separately or which can all be performed together. The play features an extremely balanced cast consisting of many large male and female roles, plus good supporting roles and non-speaking roles, which can be expanded to accommodate the desired size of the performing company. It may be performed by as few as 16 actors doubling roles, or by a series of classes, with each class performing one story.

In a frollicking romp with delightful animal characters, this play, based on an old, short African animal fable, explains why the Hare never drinks at the watering hole with the other animals, and teaches the lessons of cooperation and compromise in working out problems which affect a community. Synopsis:During one of the worst droughts in history, the animals that inhabit the desert decide they have to dig in the ground to find water to survive. Every animal agrees to go into town and find work

Description of this Script:Duration: 15-20 mins. Genre: historical drama Cast Size: 24 roughly equal roles plus expandable chorus Grade level: 3rd gr.+, m.s., h.s. or adult/intergenerational Production ideas: included at the back. Synopsis of the Story:The members of a modern Jewish family are celebrating the Festival of Hanukkah and the father re-tells the story of how the holiday originated: The Syrian soldiers, to get the Jews to worship the statue of the god Zeus which they have just erected

Description of this Script:Duration: 15 mins. Genre: holiday comedy Cast Size: 20+ roles of equivalent size plus expandable chorus, good for intergenerational casts. Grade level: elementary Production ideas: included at the back. Synopsis:A modern Jewish family is gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah with their assorted Jewish and non-Jewish relatives and friends who keep arriving at their house until the holiday is in full swing. A real slice-of-life look at the Jewish culture a