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Funny or humorous plays

The Safety Officer – one act comedy for 7 actors

one act comedy

THE SAFETY OFFICER – ONE ACT COMEDY FOR SEVEN ACTORS

In this one act comedy, a fire has occurred backstage of a theatre just before a play is about to be presented – actually, the fire has already been put out (They think.)  The theatre management’s unsuccessful efforts in trying to conceal the incident results in one of the company’s actor’s (Rex) being sent onstage in an effort to quell any possible unrest amongst the audience (he pretends he is the Theatre’s Fire Officer). But instead he uses the opportunity to lambaste the play’s producer (Gerald) and another actor (Rodney). … In an effort to get him offstage, an actress (Carol) is sent on in order to try to persuade him to get off. Rex is in love with Carol, but she does not reciprocate his feelings – she in fact loves Rodney. Happenings onstage result in Rodney dashing on in an effort to assault Rex. … Another actress (Monica) later gets involved, as does Gerald. … The play ends with the cast about to dash offstage after hearing the sirens of fire engines pulling-up outside the front of the theatre.

Production History

Builth Wells Community Arts Society, UK – 2016

Author: Thomas Baines

Genre:  Comedy

Type: One act comedy

Cast:  7 5m 2f.  The two male fireman can also be played by women.

Ages of the actors: Twenties to middle aged

Suitable for: All ages

Length:  25 minutes

Set: A BACKDROP: The bottom centre part of which is black over an appreciable area where it appears to have been scorched by a fire. This and surrounding areas of the stage floor are damp and there are small pools of water on the floor in the vicinity. A fire has obviously been recently dampened down.

THE STAGE CURTAINS are called for in the plot.

TWO FAIRLY LARGE FIRE HOSES – being rolled up (the flat fire services type – not garden hose).

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – there is a lot of physical comedy and there are many sound effects in the script

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Like this play? Other one acts with a cast of seven:

ESPN, B.C. – teen action comedy script
Joined at the hip – South African comedy script
Missing the Mark – when you’re the con artist – and you get conned
What’s on your mind – comedy of the absurd

A Christmas Carol, Too! – Christmas skits

Christmas skits

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, TOO! – CHRISTMAS SKITS

In this very short skit for the holidays, ‘I’m a Sneezer Stooge’ is visited by three ghosts – the ghost of Christmas past, who doesn’t really do anything (because they don’t have enough money for special effects), the ghost of Christmas presents, covered in bows and the ghost of Christmas yet to come, who, well, actually does what he’s supposed to. Christmas skits for six actors. Other skits for the holidays by Lois and Kelly Corcoran. Read more about Lois and Kelly Corcoran.

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Author: Lois and Kelly Corcoran

Genre: Christmas Skits

Type: Skit, short one act play

Cast: 6 – at least 2M, rest can be either gender

Suitable for: The whole family

Length: 3 minutes

Set: No specifications, black box theatre

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – short with few lines to learn

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Like this skit? Other skits and holiday plays that we stock:

Trolls stole the North Pole – children’s musical Christmas play
God’s visit – short funny skit about God coming round to visit unexpectedly
Art Talk – comedy skit for 3 actors
Bob – 5 minute comedy skits

Don’t Bank on it – one act comedy plays for 5 actors

one act comedy plays for 5 actors

DON’T BANK ON IT – ONE ACT COMEDY PLAYS FOR 5 ACTORS

In this zany one act comedy for five actors, 2M and 3F, it’s the fifth anniversary of the chairman of The Bank, Alfred Shipman, and he is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Board, in order to commence celebrating his anniversary. He’s even written the speech himself, just in case. All that needs to be done in the final hour before they arrive is that Roger Hirsh, the vice-president has to put the final touches to the report that Alfred needs to give them. Things start to go downhill when Alfred’s wife, Anita, arrives an hour early from the airport bursting with news that she just has to tell someone; anyone. Then the money grabbing wife of one of his ex employees arrives as well, demanding compensation. They have to get rid of her, finish the report and a whole lot more before the hour is up. Will they make it?

Read more about playwright George Freek. Other plays by George.

Author: George Freek

Type: One act comedy plays

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 5 actors, 3F 2M

Length: 30-40 minutes

Ages of the actors: Adult, middle aged

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The office of the chairman of The Bank

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – achieving comedic chaos

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Like this play? Other one act comedies:

Stirred, not shaken – James Bond style black comedy
Virtual frenemies – when online gaming rivalry meets in real life
A manger carol – one act nativity play

Trolls Stole the North Pole – Musical Christmas Play

musical Christmas play

TROLLS STOLE THE NORTH POLE – MUSICAL CHRISTMAS PLAY

In this musical Christmas play, the trolls decide to steal the ‘North Pole’ and switch it with the very similar looking ‘South Pole’ (It’s literally a pole) That way, Santa’s workshop won’t get any vital deliveries he needs to make presents this year and everyone on earth will be forced to buy the Troll’s toys instead.

What will Santa do? How will he save the day? Or will his wife do it?

A lovely funny play for the holidays for the whole family. TROLLS STOLE THE NORTH POLE was first produced on November 24, 2012 at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood, California. It ran for seven weeks, through January 6, 2013.

This play is a musical and the music for the play is available through Off the Wall Plays as well.

Author: Art Shulman

Genre: Musical Christmas Play, play for the holidays

Type: Two act musical

Length: 75 minutes

Cast: Twelve, 6M 6F.

Ages of the actors: Children to adult

Suitable for: The whole family

Set: A stage with a pole on it saying ‘North Pole’ on the one side and on the other side, a similar ‘South Pole.’

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – fun lines that need to be delivered quickly to get the humour across.

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Like this play? Other plays for the holidays

Call of the Riled – short skit for Thanksgiving
Holiday shorts – collection of plays for the holidays
A Manger carol – funny nativity play

 

Tune In – Two act comedy about a television station

TUNE IN – TWO ACT COMEDY ABOUT A TELEVISION STATION

two act comedyWhen Danton Stanton ‘accidentally’ kills oil tycoon Mr. Paramount, he alters his will and inherits Mr Paramount’s long neglected TV station, also ‘by accident.’ Danton decides to make the best of things and together with his best friend Walton Harley they team up with a bunch of misfits who between them, have had SOME previous television experience.  These include the elderly Beverly Kraft, recently fired from her job at the community college, and Fred Feltbetter, an ageing has-been who fell far from grace in his previous job at the local rival TV network, and who now moonlights as Liza Justice, a cabaret singer.  Between the four of them, they come up with a plan to rescue the failed TV station and best the evil rival network.

“Dedication-

The entirety from opening to last period of this play is dedicated to my best friend of more years than I can count, William Harris, one of the most ingenious people I know, who was instrumental in co-crafting every one of the characters in this show and remain largely unchanged from their original conjuring. Below is an excerpt from their debut concept novella, now hidden on an external hard drive, never to be seen by eyes other than our own, featuring the scene in which the cast of characters prepare to walk through a haunted house attraction, an experience not unlike writing this concept stageplay:

“Now listen here, Comrades,” said Mr. Feltbetter. “This is gonna’ be really scary. So, if you need a hand to hold or a shoulder to scream into, you can just come right on over to me. I’ll be happy to help you though this!” Walton and Danton stood up and began to exit the RV, closely followed by Mr. Feltbetter and Beverly. As they crossed the parking lot, they were enveloped by the scent of cheap rubber masks and what smelled like a large supply of Dark and Gorgeous hair product.” –

I sincerely hope that this play can gift to you the laughter and joy that our friendship has provided over the years. It was a true joy to be able to bring a teenage dream to life. Anything can happen. A gospel singer could emerge from your closet, sing the hallelujah chorus, and then return to the shadows of your moth-eaten, forgotten sweaters and disappear. Never discount what seems unlikely.”

Thanks,
Timothy D. Starnes

Other comedies by Timothy Starnes. Read about playwright Timothy Starnes

Author: Timothy Starnes

Genre: Two act comedy for a large cast

Type: Two act play

Cast: 11 main parts (at least 5M 1F rest written as M but could be played by either gender and up to 25 parts in total, many of which can be doubled.

Ages of the actors: Twenties to eighties

Suitable for: All ages

Length:  100 minutes  (1.5-2 hours)

Set: Various – a courtroom, a dilapidated office, the outside of a warehouse

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – this script gets its humour from characterization of the parts.

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Like this play? Other two act comedies for your perusal

Clown Car – hilarious whoddunnit. With clowns
Lofty Larceny – two act French style farce
Nuns – two act satire about what really goes on at the convent

 

Lofty Larceny – Hysterical two act comedy

LOFTY LARCENY – HYSTERICAL TWO ACT COMEDY

 two act french farce

 

In this two act French style farce, set in a luxury sky rise apartment, Tom Flores, the wealthy industrialist (whose knitting needle business has gone down the toilet) is planning a magnificent heist to save his failing business – stealing his own wife’s jewels. Luckily his wife is too busy contemplating somebody else’s jewels (Yves, Tom’s private secretary’s) to notice. Tom decides to hire a bumbling actor, Greg Hasbine to play the part of a window cleaner/jewel thief to steal the jewels. Little do they know that Greg isn’t going to be the only jewel thief planning to clean them out that day…

Production History

Westhill High School, CT, USA – 2016

Have a look at a recent high school performance of the play.

Lofty Larceny was originally written in French as ‘Haut Vol’ and has been successfully staged both in Canada and Switzerland. The poster is available for use as promotional material. 

Read more about playwright Bruno Lacroix.

Author: Bruno Lacroix

Genre: French farce

Type: Two act French style farce

Cast: 11 actors, 8M, 3F

Ages of the actors: Twenties to middle aged

Length: Two hours

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The play is set in a penthouse on Boston’s waterfront. A private elevator gives access to it. On the left side of the set, there is the master bedroom’s door. In the left corner, is the private elevator. Most of the back wall is a panoramic window from which we see a part of the river Charles and the city. There is a french door that gives access to a balcony that all will assume to cover most of the set. To the right, there are two doors. The one closest to the balcony is the guest room and there is the kitchen’s door near the front stage. Between the elevator’s doors and the master’s bedroom there is a small table. Between the guest’s bedroom and the kitchen’s door there is a chair. In the centre of the stage there is a modular sofa without arms or back, So anyone can sit on it or lie down in different ways. A very large luxurious throw is folded on the sofa. In the right corner there is a real gigantic plant, just so that someone can hide behind it.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – classic French farce that relies heavily on characterization and doors. Properly performed, it will be hysterically funny.

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Like this play? Other French plays:

The Visit – French drama plays

Like a good farce? Other farces that we have:

Guilty party – a whodunnit 3 act farce
Heir to a misfortune – short two act farce
Don’t day you’re Harry – two act farce with diamonds, jewel thieves and a minister

 

God’s Visit – funny skit script about God and Bobby

GOD’S VISIT – FUNNY SKIT  SCRIPT ABOUT GOD AND BOBBY

funny skit script

A short funny skit about what happens when you say the words, “Oh, God!” and God actually appears. In your apartment. God’s in a bit of a hurry because apparently people do this a lot.

Read more about Playwright Evan Guilford-Blake. Other dramas and children’s plays by Evan Guilford-Blake.

Production history

Port Lincoln High School, SA, Australia (2019)
Earl Marriott Secondary School, British Columbia, Canada (2018)
Kill Musical and Dramatic Society, Killdare, Ireland (2017)
Rosemount High School  (2016)

Spokane (WA) Radio Theatre (2012)
Greensboro (NC) Playwright’s Forum (2011)
Gulfport (FL) Community Players (2011)
Holly Theatre, Dahlonega, GA (2002)
Informall Theatre Company, Greensboro, NC (2001)
Heartlande Theatre Company, Birmingham, MI (1997)
Wild Onion Theatre Company, Chicago (1991)
Sri Emas International School, Malaysia – 2020
Highlands Cashiers Players, NC, USA – 2020

Author: Evan Guilford-Blake

Genre: Comedy, funny skit script

Type: One act play, comedy skit about God

Length: 8 minutes

Cast: Two 1M 1F

Ages of actors: Any age

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Variable – can be an apartment or an empty stage.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – short funny easy skit

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Over My Dead Body – one act ghost plays

OVER MY DEAD BODY – ONE ACT GHOST PLAYS (comedy)

 

one act ghost plays

A ghost and her husband are prepared to haunt the house below before they’ll let their family sell the house that has been theirs for three generations. Miranda and Ben have been quite happy living in their haunted family home their entire lives. And now that they have passed on and joined the realm of family ghosts as well, they are looking forward to an afterlife spent with their children and grandchildren.

Unfortunately, their children (more specifically their daughter in law) have other plans. Plans that involve selling the more then slightly haunted house and moving to Florida. Plans that Miranda simply won’t have…

OVER MY DEAD BODY, was a finalist in the One Act Play Competition of The Arts Club of Washington (D.C.) and also won First Prize in The Little Theatre of Alexandria One Act Play Competition in 2014.

Production History

Rhosgoch Y.F.C. – 2016.
Washtenaw International High School Drama Club, MI, USA – 2016
Wyvern Players Society, AB, Canada – 2016
Holy Rosary Convent – Edenvale, South Africa – 2017
Callan Macra, Co Kilkenny, Ireland – 2021
Indian Springs School, AL, USA – 2021
Buck Creek Players, Inc., IN, USA – 2022
Robbinsville High School, NJ, USA – 2023

Read about award winning playwright Jean Blasiar.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Comedy, ghost story

Type: One act  ghost plays

Cast: Eight actors, 8, 5M 3F

Ages of the actors: 20’s to 60’s

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Forty five minutes

Set: Split level – an upper level or loft for the ghosts and the dining room downstairs.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – some special effects with wind/lights/sounds

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Like this play? Other funny ghost and thriller scripts:

Mister Hislop’s dating Agency – funny ghost story script
The Basement – one act comedy thriller
You do love me, don’t you – funny then scary psycho thriller in one act

 

The Robber Baron and the Baker Thief – Teen adventure play

THE ROBBER BARON AND THE BAKER THIEF – TEEN ADVENTURE PLAY

teen adventure plays

The Robber Baron and the Baker Thief follows the story of young Hans, the son of a Baker and Maria, the daughter of a miller. Hans and Maria are in love with each other but are afraid to tell the other how they feel. Hans also has a secret; he travels the countryside as the notorious highwayman known as Black Jack. A chance encounter in the forest where Hans as Black Jack rescues Maria from a band of robbers exposes his secret to the black-hearted villain Baron Blackheart who falls for Maria’s beauty and decides to make her his bride. At this point the play follows a series of events as the Baron plots to win the hand of Maria and rid himself of Black Jack once and for all…

Production History:

SPAG BOL Productions – Ferny Grove State School, Queensland, Australia – 2016

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Baron
teen adventure play
Katya
teen adventure play
Maria and Helga

Author: David Schmidt

Genre: Teen adventure romance

Type: Two act play

Cast: 19 5F, 8F and the rest either gender.

Ages of the actors: Suitable for teens

Suitable for: The whole family

Length: 90 minutes

Set: The sets for this show can also be as simple or as elaborate as you want. Descriptions for each set can be found in the script. When first performed trees for the forest were made out of cardboard and a single banquet table was used for the baker shop, the bar at Joe’s Forest hideaway and the barons castle. Smaller tables were used for Joe’s forest hideaway and the kitchen table in Maria’s home. This made for easy scene changes

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 a fun and easy teen play ideal for drama camp

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Like this play? Other teen adventure plays

Aladdin comedy script
Peter’s dream – three act teen adventure
The Dragons of Spring – short two act medieval teen comedy
The Wandering Bard’s tale – medieval teen comedy

 

Mister Hislop’s Dating Agency – funny ghost story script

MISTER HISLOP’S DATING AGENCY – FUNNY GHOST STORY SCRIPT

scripts about ghosts

Four people (two men and two women) meet in a room with an eerie atmosphere, which is part of a derelict house. They were previously unknown to each other, and are there as a result of a meeting arranged by the Hislop Dating Agency. Their uneasiness in being there is suddenly compounded into stark terror! They try to get out of the house, but find that they are locked in. They are confronted by the truth – The Hislop dating Agency is for DEAD PEOPLE ONLY. Any hopeful doubts they had over being ghosts are eventually toppled when they get involved with a BBC producer and his assistant, who are searching for a ghost-like property for an episode of the Doctor Who series.

What happens next?

Production History

Seaton High School, Australia, 2016


Author:
Tom Baines

Genre:  Funny ghost story script

Type: Two act play

Cast: Nine  5M 4F

Ages of the actors:  Adult – mid twenties to forties

Suitable for: All ages

Length:  80-90 minutes

Set: A sparsely furnished room that includes a long full-length mirror (in a swing frame or wall mounted) – also, a plain light upright chair. … The room requires to have a slight eerie aspect about it – perhaps brought about by the décor and lighting.

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 mixing ghost story tension with comedic build up

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Like this play?  See some other ghost and horror plays we stock:

The price of a Ghost – dramatic 2 act ghost story
A Contemporary Christmas Carol

Madrababes – fun filled one act musicals

MADRABABES – FUN FILLED ONE ACT MUSICALS

ONE ACT MUSICALS

 

one act musicals

A fun filled one act musical for six actors,  3F and, er, 2 other F dressed up as men and at least one real man  with a real beard. Madrababes was staged in June 2013 in Swindon, as part of  Madam Renards Mini Fringe to great reviews!

A REVIEW OF MADRABABES AS PART OF MADAM RENARDS FRINGE

‘One of the main words that popped into my head when I first started watching Madrababes was ‘fun.’ A one act musical made up entirely of madrigals, a form of early music pop music. Please be advised to leave your serious hats at the door for an hour of entertaining quips and silliness, a story of 6 friends finding love through jokes and song. We meet John and Tom, two stylish elegant ‘men’ lamenting their lack of luck with their lady friends Phyllis and Philomela, could it possibly be because they are far more worried about what they’re wearing than displays of manliness?

The ladies are equally lamenting about the lack of decent men in the area when in walks Amyntas, a tall man with a real, not drawn on, beard and a deep voice. Naturally fighting ensues and much harmonised singing. ‘

by Abby Sparrow

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Authors: Matt Fox and Jessie Thompson

Genre: One act musicals

Type: One act musicals

Length: Forty minutes

Cast: 6 actors, 5F 1M

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Simple stage – suitable for a smaller stage in little theatres or pub theatre type stages but adaptable to the bigger stage as well.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – all performers should be able to sing in harmony from sheet music.

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Enter Love – contemporary musicals

And all his songs were sad – play about the life and works of Sean mcCarthy

Twenty first century stomp – A rap drama in two acts

Call of the Riled – short skit for Thanksgiving

CALL OF THE RILED – SHORT SKIT FOR THANKSGIVING

SKIT FOR THANKSGIVING

A short skit for thanksgiving for 2-3 people for people who can’t cook! Set in the kitchen where the turkey is burning away, a caller calls 9-1-1 for advice. Featuring a smoke filled kitchen, a 9-1-1 call and a gravy making hotline.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Mayflower Mosaic Radio Theater Live, OH, USA – 2019

Author: Lois and Kelly Corcoran

Genre: Comedy skit for Thanksgiving

Type: Short one act play

Length: Three to four minutes

Cast: 1-3 people any sex.

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Simple – a telephone and kitchen utensils

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – nice skit for girl guides, scouts, Christian groups as well as comedy groups for the holidays. Skit for Thanksgiving.

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Art Talk – comedy skits for three actors
101 ways to dump someone in five minutes

Try Psychology – melodramatic comedy in two acts

melodramatic comedy in two acts

TRY PSYCHOLOGY – MELODRAMATIC COMEDY IN TWO ACTS

It’s The “Castle’ Inn, a once elegant inn in a rustic setting, now a room and board establishment presided over by the buxom Margery and now unfortunately, badly in debt.

Margery’s famous cooking is doing its part in keeping the paying clientele away, and today, only one guest is reluctantly eating his way through the aforementioned cooking. He’s called Stanley and he’s got his fingers in more than one pie. He was previously engaged to the Maid at “The Castle Inn,” Lola, who has unceremoniously dumped him for his many flirtations, which include an aspiring actress, Rhoda, who he promised to put on stage (but now he unfortunately can’t because he has run out of money) and the buxom Margery (without her knowledge he has purchased the Castle Inn – hence his lack of money).

Margery and Percy’s marriage is on the rocks, as he has tolerated her cooking long enough. Today Percy’s leaving her to run his hot-dog stand in peace.

Author:  George Freek

Genre: Melodramatic comedy

Type: Two-act play

Cast: Seven actors, 4M 3F

Ages of the actors: Adult  – Twenties to Fifties

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Ninety minutes

Set:  The All-purpose room of ‘The Castle’ Inn. At the right is a dining table and
door to the kitchen. An entrance door is center, rear. At left, down, is a piano
up from it doors, presumably to rooms. There is a sofa by the piano.

Level of Difficulty:  8/10 – achieving the mix of melodrama, dry wit and slapstick that is this lovely piece, er, without going overboard.

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Like this play? Other two act comedies:

Explain the Handcuffs – a time travel adventure script
Clown car – a whodunit play script
Don’t say you’re Harry – a two act farce script

In the drink – one act plays 1M 1F

one act comedy play for 1M 1F

IN THE DRINK – ONE ACT PLAYS 1M 1F

A melodramatic comedy about the founder of a new brand of cherry cola  and his not so charming wife who are living the life of the rich and famous. This, despite the fact that their new cherry cola has caused a public stir by setting the tongues of people who drink it on fire. But…. in doing that it has brought in a lot of new business for the local dentists and doctors.  The investors are therefore very happy, so they are too.  So they’ll carry on drinking their absinthe and gin. Just not their cola.

In the Drink was originally performed at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s 24/7 Play Festival.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Oregon State University, OR, USA – 2018

Read more about playwright Timothy Starnes.  Other off beat comedies by Timothy Starnes.

A dedication to the original cast: ‘As Lord Cynhardt would say, you can put anything into a drink. Peppermint, butterscotch extract, cigarette ashes, tears of orphans, brown sugar, medical waste and even bits of your enemies. However, you cannot simply mix in any and everything for a theatrical production that won’t get you run out of town. This script is dedicated to the original Lord and Lady Cynhardt, Hoke Pittman and Piper Parks, along with director Ryan Fay, who all worked tirelessly in a timespan of not long enough to host and clean up a dinner party in order to shape the version you see today.’

Author: Timothy Starnes

Genre: Comedy, melodrama

Type: One act plays 1M 1F

Number of actors: Two 1M 1F

Ages of the actors:  30’s up

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Living room of an upmarket home.

Level of difficulty:  8/10 – achieving the melodramatic tones without going overboard.

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A Blind date – best selling one act comedy
But I’m French – one act comedy for two actors
Insurance on the line – ten minute satires

ESPN, B.C. – Teen scripts about sports

 

teen script about sports

ESPN – TEEN SCRIPTS ABOUT SPORTS

A fun play for teens and older children about caveman teens and how they developed all the popular sports we play today. It’s all done with actions and no words so there’s loads of room for a director’s creativity. A short play that’s less than ten minutes in length.

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Teen scripts

Type: One act play

Length: 5-10 minutes

Number of actors: 7, 1 man 5 boys and 1 woman

Suitable for: All ages

Ages of the actors: 5 teen 2 teen to adult

Set: Simple – a cave with some “rocks” that the boys throw around and a basket of apples with twigs

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – doing all the actions without words.

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© August 2014 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Other short plays for Teens:

Rebecca, the child – short play about peer pressure
Someone to remember – short one act teen drama
Family exercise – short one act drama