PLAYS FOR 13 TO 19 ACTORS

PLAYS FOR 13 to 19 ACTORS

plays for 13 to 19 actors

These stage plays for 13 to 19 actors are generally large cast plays in which there are a number of basic roles but also roles that can be doubled up and performed by the same actor. Many of them would be ideal for the classroom as most of the students could become involved in the production.

COMEDY

A country reunion – American comedy about hicks and a bottle o’ moonshine

  • Cast 7F 12M
  • Length 40-50 minutes

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespearean comedy adapted for high school

  • Cast 13F 5M
  • Length 60-90 minutes

After Ever After – a fairytale musical for schools

  • Up to forty actors
  • 1.25 hours

Aladdin – comedy script for kids and amdram

  • Thirteen to twenty actors
  • Length One Hour

Alice in Football Land – play for older kids and young teens

  • Cast 19-29 1M 2F rest all M/F
  • Length 1.5 hours

Alice in Wonderland – the Pantomime!

  • Large ensemble cast 15-20 players
  • Length 90 minutes

Alien research – funny play for primary school children

  • Up to 40 children but many parts can be doubled
  • Length 25-30 minutes but cutting is allowed

Antibiotic – a hospital comedy script in two acts

  • Cast: 15-20 actors
  • Length: two hours

Cancelled – an award winning one act farce set in a 1940’s radio studio

  • Cast: 9M 2F and 4 non speaking policemen
  • Length: 50 minutes

Cinderella in Space – An Out of this World Cinderella Pantomime

  • Cast: 15-22 – as with all pantomimes, actor gender will vary.
  • Length: 90 minutes

Dick Turpin: From the Horse’s Mouth. British Pantomime!

  • Cast: 17
  • Length: 90 minutes plus songs

Dick Whittington – the Pantomime!

  • Cast 13 plus many extras
  • Length 60-90 minutes without and with songs

Dr George’s Magnificent Zeppelin – musical children’s plays

  • 9M 9F
  • Length 2 hours

Enchanted – plays for Junior High – two scouts lost in the forest encounter a magical kingdom

  • Main Characters: 2 – M, 4 – F. Total cast of 15 – 2F and 7N (smaller parts may be doubled)
  • Length 1.5 hours

Grace will lead me home –  Grace’s quest to find a magical cure for her ill mother takes her on a fantastic adventure

  • Cast 19 13M 6F but in many cases M characters can be played by F
  • Length 90 minutes

Holiday Island – comedy drama about a bunch of Brits on holiday in Tenerife

  • Cast 17-20 9M 8-11F
  • Length 2-2.5 hours

In Hyding – award winning chilling version of the classic story, with a feminine twist

  • Main characters 3 – M, 1 – F. Total cast 22, but smaller parts can be played by the same actor. The show has been produced with between 7 and 22 cast members
  • Length 90 minutes

Jack and the Beanstalk – pantomime!

  • Cast 19
  • Length 35 minutes

Jack Masterson and the Case of Absurdity – a whodunit comedy

  • Cast 18 12F 6M
  • Length 90 minutes

Jinxed – insane one act comedy script

  • Cast: 4M, 7F, 5N
  • Length: 35 minutes

Kingdom – children’s musical about a dragon who loses his flame

  • Cast: 4M 4F plus extras
  • Length: one hour

Let’s get rid of the plump people – Greek satire

  • Cast :18 12M 6F
  • Length: 2- 2.5 hours

Lord Watchout! – Comic Fantasy Script set in Wales

  • Cast: 1 or 14
  • Length: 40 minutes

Mack to the Past – 30 minutes ‘Shakespeare meets Back to the Future’ comedy for teens

  • Cast :11 up – mixed genders
  • Length: 30 minutes

Mother Goose, the Pantomime

  • Cast 7 Males, 6 Females, 1 Neutral (plus a few neutral extras). As with all pantos, gender is very fluid
  • Length 75-90 minutes

Myth- Modern Greek Play for Schools

  • Cast 15-33 – large ensemble cast
  • Length 45 minutes

Pirate Appreciation day – comedy script about pirates. Aargh!

  • 8M 3F and 7 smaller parts
  • Length two hours

Plain as Jane – a comedy where Jane Austen is brought to life to help a young writer

  • Cast 6M 6F plus extras
  • Length Two hours

Rag-Na-Rock! Loki, at the local high school, is about to start a war to end all wars and it’s up to the kids and 1 teacher to stop him

  • Cast up to 17
  • Length 25-30 minutes

Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates – PANTOMIME!

  • Cast of 12 plus islanders, pirates and chorus. And a gorilla
  • Length 90 minutes

Ronnie the Fird – period school drama set in the 1960’s

  • Cast 14M 4F
  • Length 2.5 hours

Sassafras Cannon – Civil war black comedy

  • 10-12 M 1-4F
  • Length 90 minutes

Seize the Crown – Comedy about Community Theatre

  • Cast of 13 7F 6M
  • Length Sixty minutes

Sinbad The Sailor! Pantomime of course!

  • Cast 19 plus chorus
  • Length 60-75 minutes

Snow White and the Seven Ugly Sisters – alternative funny pantomime script

  • Cast of 13 – at least 3M 3F rest N
  • Length 70-80 minutes

Snow White – the pantomime. Traditional British

  • Cast 16
  • Length 2.5 hours

Stand and Deliver!A Pantomime about Dick Turpin, notorious Highwayman

  • Cast of 15
  • Length 40-60 minutes plus songs

The Actors – a comedy about the afterlife

  • Cast 14 but smaller parts can be played by the same actors
  • Length 40 minutes

The Blueberry Balladeer – plays for youth theatre

  • Cast 9-19 actors
  • Length 1.5- hours

The Dragons of Spring – a two-act medieval teen comedy

  • Cast 16-20 12M 5F
  • Length 2 hours

The Dummies Guide to saving the USA – CIA comedy script

  • Length 50-60 minutes
  • Cast minimum 10 up to 16 actors

The Fourth Wall – teen one act adventure comedy

  • Cast 6M 2F 6N
  • Length 30 minutes

The Golden years – comedy script for seniors

  • Cast 8M 9F and 1N
  • Length 20 minutes

The Great Bank Robbery Hostage Crisis two act comedy about a bank robbery gone wrong

  • Cast 6-9M 6F
  • Length 50 minutes

The mystery of the missing meatball – play for younger children

  • 4M 4F 5N
  • Length 5 minutes

The three unwise men – spoof nativity play

  • Cast of 18. 2F, 13M, 3N
  • Length 30 minutes

The Pendragon Sacrifice – award winning play about Merlin and King Arthur

  • 6M, 5F, 9N
  • Length 30 minutes

The Summoning – audience participation comedy horror

  • Length ten minutes
  • Cast of 6 – 13. 1M, 2F, 3-10N

The Way Out- comedy about escaping from the loony bin

  • Length 90 minutes
  • Cast 9M 12F

The Wizard of Odd – a pantomime script of the Wizard of Oz

  • 15-22 main parts
  • Length 90 minutes

THE ten minute Hamlet – large cast comedy about putting on Hamlet at the old folks home. In ten minutes

  • Cast of 14
  • Length 90 minutes

The Vampire Drudgeries – teen comedy about a rebellious vegetarian vampire

  • Cast 7M 4F plus witches
  • Length 10-15 minutes

Treasured Planet – children’s play about saving the ocean

  • Cast 12 kids plus non speaking parts
  • Length 30-40 minutes

Trouble on Tatu Ween – War Stars Parody

  • Cast of 14 most gender N
  • Length 10-15 minutes

Tumbleweed – large cast comedy set in the wild, wild west

  • Cast 9M, 10F
  • Length 90 minutes

Tune in – two act comedy about reigniting a dilapidated TV station

  • Cast 11 at least 5M 1F and the rest either gender 11 to 20 parts
  • Length 100 minutes

Villains incorporated – award winning Teen one act

  • Cast 11 plus
  • Length 30 minutes

What could possibly go wrong? A stage manager’s worst nightmare

  • Cast 5M 7F
  • Length just under 2 hours

DRAMA

A Contemporary Christmas Carol – a modern day Scrooge story

  • A minimum of twelve and up to 32 parts
  • Length 90 minutes

Action Man and the Lost Kids – are modern kids losing their imagination? Action Man to the Rescue!

  • Cast of 18 (5F, 6M, 7N (toys can be any gender))
  • Length 60 minutes

Beauty and the Prince – an alternative retelling of Beauty and the Beast

  • Cast 4M, 3F, 6N
  • Length 15-20 minutes

Boy-1 – science fiction play for teens

  • 18F 1M
  • Length 45 minutes

Dr Kritzinger’s Twelve O’clock – award winning play about the creation of the Holocaust

  • Cast 13M
  • Length 40-50 minutes

Enter Love – original modern musicals

  • 7F 6M
  • Ninety minutes

Exquisite Anxieties – Seven Slivers of Suspense – A Collection of Bone Chilling Short Scripts

  • Cast 1-13 actors depending on the script
  • Scripts vary from 10-30 minutes

Faith – an abused woman’s story in one act

  • 5F 9M
  • Length 35-40 minutes

In Hyding – award winning chilling version of the classic story, with a feminine twist

  • Main characters 3 – M, 1 – F. Total cast 22, but smaller parts can be played by the same actor. The show has been produced with between 7 and 22 cast members
  • Length 90 minutes

Jerico – script about the fall of Jerico and of man

  • Cast 8M 5F
  • Length 50-60 minutes

Keep on Truckin’ – Canadian drama about the Covid shutdown and the Trucker rebellion

  • 5M, 3F, 6N
  • Length 62 minutes

Leonardo – a murder mystery set around Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Cast of 17
  • Length 75 minutes

Memory Palace – lovely script about the life of a typical family spanning generations

  • Mains: 4F 3M (5 children 4M 1F and one 20 something play younger versions of the main parts. 1-2 minor parts as well)
  • Length Two hours

Mirror – play for younger teens

  • 2F, 5M (plus non speaking parts) and 5-7 N
  • Length 30 minutes

Mock Tudor Land – a Drama with a bit of a Bite!

  • Cast 5F 8M
  • Length 90 minutes

Molly and the magic phone – musical for children

  • Cast minimum 10 and up to 15
  • Length Thirty minutes

Oedipus the play – classic Greek mythological tale in the format of a play

  • Length 1-20 minutes
  • Cast fourteen

People’s War – drama about the start of the Covid 19 Pandemic in Wuhan, China

  • Length 60 minutes
  • Cast 3F 4M 7N

Second Glance – one hour drama about estranged family

  • Cast 9M 9F 1N
  • Length one hour

The Hopeful Diamond Caper – two act crime comedy about a huge diamond on a ship, a wealthy woman and a couple of bad guys

  • 5M 4F and some extras
  • Length Ninety minutes

The Magician’s Nephew – an adaptation of the classic children’s story

  • Ensemble cast – 6F, 4M plus extras.
  • Length 60 minutes

The Passion of Mary – American historical play about the Quakers

  • Cast 8M 8F
  • Length 1.5- 2 hours

The Perfect Place for a Mouse – Children’s play with music

  • Cast up to 45, but a small cats o 13 can play a variety of parts
  • Length 90 minutes

The Royal Blood cannot be Mixed

  • 8M 2F and ten other smaller parts
  • Length 2 hours

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – the musical

  • Total cast 17
  • 2.5 hours

The Robber Baron and the Baker Thief

  • Cast 19 5F 8M rest N
  • Length 90 minutes

The Scepter has Departed – a Jewish Drama in 2 acts

  • 18M 1F

Two Many Witnesses – a courtroom drama script in one act

  • Cast 17 12M 5F
  • Length 1 hour

Unhappily Ever After. A fairytale. Gone horribly wrong!

  • Cast 11M 7F
  • Length 90 minutes

When was 1916? Irish play about the Easter Rising

  • Length 75 minutes
  • Cast 14M 2F

Yvette – period drama romance set in Paris

  • Cast 13 10M 3F
  • Length 80 minutes

MUSICAL

Dream Beat – 1960’s Two Act Stage Musical

  • Cast: 14 4M 10F ( 5F actors and 5F dancers)
  • Length: 90 minutes

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