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THE EATER OF DREAMS – short one act drama for two actors

THE EATER OF DREAMS – SHORT DRAMA FOR TWO ACTORS

It is a true test of bravery, no? To lay your head on a pillow, close your eyes and succumb. Not knowing where you’ll end up or if you’ll wake up… In The Eater of Dreams, a short drama for two actors, Mika faces his greatest enemy or the worthiest of adversaries in Makanaka, The Eater of Dreams. Makanaka wants justice for his children, the shadows, who complained to him about Mika chasing them away. And Mika had his reasons. The shadows are an unpleasant sight, when one is contemplating your own impending slumber. Peace is needed before one’s rest. Sadly, peace is forfeited when the Eater of Dreams pays you a visit. Sometimes a life can be forfeit as well…

The Eater of Dreams, talks of equality, the common notion that children are only birthed by females, cared for by females. The Eater of Dreams, adds life to non-living beings, the light and shadows around us that we are ever so ignorant about. You wouldn’t believe the things that go on while you sleep.

Note: This play is written with Asian actors in mind, and the language used in the play follows that. However, the concept is universal and non Asian actors would also benefit from the script with local language used.

Author: Elancharan Gunasekaran

Type: Short one act drama

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-fi

Cast: 2M (one may be transgender male/female)

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: Adults only – language

Length: Seven minutes

Set: Mika’s bedroom at night.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – the genre of drama mixed with horror – actors need to hold the audience’s attention

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Copyright © May 2019 Elancharan Gunasekaran and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other plays that explore the metaphysical realm:

A Puzzle for Two – a philosophical play
Lovely, dark and deep – sci-fi play about a journey to an alternate reality
Becoming disappeared – eerie sci-fi

Sir Lyonel and the Legion of Unlikely Heroes – funny fantasy script

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SIR LYONEL AND THE LEGION OF UNLIKELY HEROES – FUNNY FANTASY SCRIPT

There’s nothing like serving a reigning queen a good dose of her own justice. Sir Lyonel the Just has seen the limits of Queen Agrivaine’s mercy (very limited) and has an unyielding desire to get back what is rightfully his. A knight can only do so much with his swordsmanship but by a stroke of good fortune Sir Lyonel happens upon a minstrel because well, everyone needs one. Sir Lyonel also stumbles upon the strongest man within quite a radius, one who if they shoot you, it will be your last breath, one with dominion over the winds, a lady with crazy fast feet and a woman who puts the cold in ‘’ice cold’’. They all join forces with the knight to get rich from the Queen’s treasury and bruise her ego too. It’s not an easy feat, for the Queen is cunning but at least there is quite a bit of fun to be had with the Princess’s betrothal on the cards in this funny fantasy script.

It’s a league distinct from any other.

Read other fantasy scripts – The Robber Baron and the Baker Thief by horror and fantasy author David Schmidt

Author: David Schmidt

Type: Two-act play

Genre: Funny fantasy script

Cast: Main Characters: 2M, 2F. Total cast: 5M, 7F

Ages of the actors: Teens up

Suitable for: All ages to watch, teens up to perform

Length: 60-75 minutes

Set: Roads, various. Throne room of the queen, outside the palace gates, a banquet hall.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – some special effects may be needed.

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Copyright © August 2018 David Schmidt and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other fantasy scripts for you to enjoy:

Enchanted – two boy scouts. lost in the forest come across a magical kingdom
Regicide – fantasy about revolution. And murder.
Teru ‘ah – alternate history fantasy about a very different outcome from world war two.

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

play about Merlin and king arthur

THE PENDRAGON SACRIFICE – AWARD WINNING PLAY ABOUT MERLIN AND KING ARTHUR

So it is in the reimagining of the adventures of Merlin and his motley crew, that an evil too ghastly to imagine rears its head and must be done away with.   In this one act drama, Arthur of Legend, his brother Marcus, Gwenivere and a band that only Merlin could come up with have one task: to defeat the darkness before it has its chance of setting in in this award winning play about Merlin and King Arthur. Some will die; let them. Some will live; may they live forever…

The evil that descends into the hearts of men is both from and becomes the world. Merlin has witnessed it and can never forget it; it would be unwise for him to even try to.

This show was produced by E.A. Laney High School in October of 2014. It was our competition piece and won awards for best fight choreography, Outstanding Director, and best actress.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Eden CISD, TX, USA – 2019

Other plays by award winning playwright Brent Holland – Getting this Close – play about love in  High School.

Author: Brent Holland

Type: One act play about Merlin and King Arthur

Genre: Adventure, action, teen, fantasy

Length: Thirty minutes

Cast: 6M, 5F, 9N

Ages of the actors: Teens and up

Suitable for: High school performances to community theatre

Set: Merlin’s study, then a table where people are eating, then Riveredge city post carnage.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – an award winning teen play

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Copyright © July 2018 Brent Holland and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Others like it:

The Lady of the Lake Murder – an Arthurian murder mystery script
Regicide – play play about a revolution, and murder
Teru’ah – Jewish fantasy script set in an alternate reality post WWII

Dr. Reason – sci-fi play script about mental health and mind control

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DR REASON – SCI-FI PLAY SCRIPT ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND MIND CONTROL

 

Dr. Rachel Junger, a psychologist is trying to find out why her former patients have devoted their lives to a revolutionary movement called ‘The Analog Underground’ when she’s called on to counsel a man with no past who believes he comes from a future where all of humanity shares a single consciousness. Is his vision a heaven or a hell? After the strange man makes an impossible escape, Dr. Junger has to find him to find out what happened that time long ago in the near future.

The man, simply known as Simon, reveals to her that he tried to break into the Cybernetics Lab of the medical facility she works for. Little does Dr. Junger know that her interview with Simon (who thinks he is from the future) would be the catalyst to events that would change her life and the world, forever in this sci-fi play script about mental health and mind control.

Simon, a guinea pig, for some sinister testing within the Cybernetics Department, reveals his true nature as Dr Junger encourages him to do so. His current psyche is a result of a growth that’s being used to control his mind and rationale by an organisation known only as the Singularity. But then Simon disappears as it’s revealed that other very specific patients whom Dr Junger has encountered, have also been experimented on by the Singularity. Dr Junger gets closer to understanding why she must escape the Singularity’s clutches but initially, no less closer to understanding why the Analog Underground resistance movement has chosen her to be at the helm of a budding revolution. It’s a fight against time, for the future and for the people.

The heroes of the revolution never really know they are.

Read other plays by playwright – Sexbot – a female robot must be a spy for the enemy by David Philippe

Author: David Philippe

Type: Two-act play script

Genre: Sci-fi play, science fiction, play about mind control

Cast: 3M, 3F, 2N

Ages of the actors: Late twenties to middle aged

Suitable for: Adults to perform and watch.

Length: Two hours

Set: Various settings within an unnamed city; offices, holding cells, apartments, street scenes and warehouses.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – getting into the mindset of the paranoid schizophrenic and building tension

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Like this play? Others like it:

Boy-1 – science fiction play for teens
Lovely, dark and deep – sci fi play about a man’s journey to another world

Sexbot – science fiction drama

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SEXBOT – SCIENCE FICTION DRAMA SCRIPT

In Sexbot, a science fiction drama script in three acts, we are introduced to Pris – an artificial human, engineered with the DNA of famously deceased actress Soledad Xavier, for one purpose and one purpose alone: to make the God Emperor (a superhuman messiah) fall in love with her, at least, according to Viggo, a spy and the only person that Pris has encountered since her awakening.

Pris is the sixth test subject to be given this somewhat thankless job and she comes with the works; she is a lot smarter than her predecessors, she has actual memories of Soledad’s life, a deeper capacity towards emotional intelligence (both inward and outward) and a heightened sense of her innermost feelings, as well as the ability to effectively express them. With all her upgrades, she is seemingly equipped with all the tools that would enable her to successfully seduce the emotionally juvenile God King but Pris has her doubts and fears and while Viggo acknowledges the truths behind her feelings of uncertainty, Pris may be the only option available so that the God Emperor may come to be completely under the cause’s political control.

Sexbot explores the complicated nature of human sexuality, human nature,  the feelings and thoughts surrounding love and the dramatic lengths some will go to exploit it.

Is the purpose of life reserved only for the living?

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Kobe art Village Center, Kobe, Japan – 2019

 

Author: David Philippe

Type: Three act play

Genre: Science fiction drama script

Cast: 1 – F, 1 – M

Ages of the actors: Adult, one 20’s, the other 20’s – 40’s

Suitable for: Adults to watch and perform

Length: Ninety minutes

Set: A Hotel room on the Planet New Atlantis

Level of difficulty: 8/10 –  three act play in one room for two people – need to maintain the focus of the audience

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Like this play? Others like it:

Robotic love – science fiction drama script about a professor who creates a robot as his dying wish
Next – drama about a killer virus striking a small town
Parade day – play about Roswell, thirty years on

Regicide – fantasy play script about revolution. And murder

fantasy play script

REGICIDE – FANTASY PLAY SCRIPT ABOUT REVOLUTION. AND MURDER

There are those who hate the King and Queen. They have their reasons. Mainly, the violence, bloodshed, murder and oppression they have lived with under the monarchs rule. ‘’Those’’ like Zanna and Lucien, belong to a brotherhood that seeks to destroy the King and Queen once and for all. In Regicide, a play in three acts, their lives revolve around their resolve to bring power back to the people, their respect for the authorities who will carry out the order for the final blow and the sweet revolution of retribution that will follow the simple task that must be done quickly and quietly – kill the King and Queen’s new born son in this fantasy play script.

The logic, according to Zanna and Lucien’s Commander (Jacob) is that without an heir, the wretched kingdom will surely collapse and so Lucien and Zanna must ensure that the threat is completely annihilated. ‘’The Threat’’, merely a day or two old, who has done nothing but exist thus far, who understands nothing’ and is as harmless as can be, must be killed and it is Lucien who has volunteered to do it. But can he? … Could you?

When a child is born, it knows not what it has done.

Author: Eliah Medina

Type: Short 3 act play

Genre: Fantasy play script

Cast: Mains: 2 – M, 2 – F. Total cast 5M 3F

Ages of the actors: 5 in their twenties, the rest in their forties to fifties

Suitable for: Teens up to adults to perform.

Length: About an hour

Set: Various locations in a kingdom including a seedy tavern, castle bedrooms, cottage

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – scene changes. Although there are various scene changes an accomplished director can easily make use of space on stage to set the scenes.

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Copyright © November 2017 Eliah Medina and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other fantasy play scripts for you to enjoy:

Enchanted – two boy scouts stumble onto a fantasy world in the woods
The Lady of the Lake Murder – Arthurian whodunit
Grace will lead me home – young girl goes on a magical quest to save her mother

Robotic Love – science fiction drama script

science fiction drama script

ROBOTIC LOVE – SCIENCE FICTION DRAMA SCRIPT

A great scientist finds that he has cancer and is dying. He’s forced to re-connect with a powerful business partner as he has an unrealised ambition – to build a perfect human. He has the knowledge to create life and before he dies, he wants his dream fulfilled in this science fiction drama script.

Once the perfect body has been created, he uploads a specialized program into it, bringing his robot called Persephone to life. He invites his star student and his girlfriend in to help to teach this robot all about life and what it is to be human. Things start out well but as the relationship grows she changes from his daughter to his lover, his prodigy and finally to his slave.

In his quest to build the perfect human he forgets what being human really is. Becoming more and more obsessed with controlling Persephone, he gradually loses his grip on reality with tragic consequences.

Author: Simon Parker

Genre: Science fiction drama script

Type: Three act play

Cast: Mains: 2M 2F, rest 1M 1N

Ages of the actors: Two older M, one doctor, three young.

Suitable for: Adults – some violence

Set: Robert’s home including a put together lecture hall, a workshop

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – building to a climax of tension and tragedy

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Copyright © October 2017 Simon Parker and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other full length science fiction dramas:

A Second Chance – a group of dead people are given the chance to change history
Lovely, dark and deep – a man crosses a portal into another sinister world and has to escape
Teru’ah – alternate history – a future world where the second world war ended differently leads to anti Semitic riots

The Seven Suits – Funny Science Fiction Teen Play

funny science fiction teen play

THE SEVEN SUITS –  FUNNY SCIENCE FICTION TEEN PLAY

In a never seen before plot (in a stage play, that is), extremely evil aliens plan to invade Earth and do away with silly mankind once and for all. However, all is now lost. Good aliens plan to stop them by creating 7 suits which endow wearers with superhuman powers. They select 7 humans who would best make use of the suits, people who represent the very best of humanity. But before the suits can be distributed, the extremely evil aliens thwart their plans and wipe out all but one of the good guys.

Luckily the single survivor manages to give the suits to 7 very ordinary teens out camping. These seven teens carry the very fate of humanity. Will they work out how to use the suits and defeat the extremely evil aliens or is earth doomed to be destroyed forever? Find out – in this week’s  funny science fiction play:

“THE SEVEN SUITS!”

Other comedies by Brent – The way out – a comedy about escaping from the loony bin

Author: Brent Holland

Genre: Funny science fiction teen play

Type: Two-act play

Length: 1 hour and forty five minutes

Cast:  5 baddies, teens 3F 4M, Bountyhunters 3M 2F, 4 goodies

Ages of the actors: Teens to adults

Suitable for: All ages to watch, Teens and older to perform

Set: Press conference, Lab, Woods

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – great fun for both performers and the audience

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Copyright © August 2017 Brent Holland and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other cool fun plays of a similar genre:

Goddle – science fiction comedy scripts
Explain the Handcuffs – a time travel adventure
Alien Research – funny play for primary school

A second chance – science fiction play scripts

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A SECOND CHANCE – SCIENCE FICTION PLAY SCRIPTS

Eight people who couldn’t be more different find themselves at a meeting. A meeting of the afterlife. For although these people are all dead, they do have one thing in common. The potential to alter catastrophic events in history and thus change the world to hopefully a better place. The eight are given a choice – to accept an assignment or to continue their journey of the afterlife. Seven accept but almost immediately find themselves back in the same place they were before. But just what did happen to them in this science fiction play script?

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Stage Left (Miami University), FL, USA – 2022

Read other plays (The Coming of Jed Crest – a play about the superstar you just found out was your dad) by UK based playwright Peter Pitt.

Author: Peter Pitt

Type: One act play

Genre: Science fiction play scripts

Cast: Cast of 9, 6M 3F (some roles can be played by either sex)

Ages of the actors: All adult

Suitable for: All ages to watch and perform

Length: Twenty five minutes

Set: A windowless room with the walls covered in white drapes, except for one doorway, to the back and to the side of the stage. There are eight chairs, more or less in a row. Facing them is a notice board on a stand. The room is bathed in a pale, orange glow.

Level of difficulty: 7/10  mystery!

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Copyright © July 2017 Peter Pitt and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other plays about the afterlife:

Death of a Gerbil – when you wake up dead and Heaven has lost your paperwork
Mister Hislop’s dating agency – for the recently deceased
Over My Dead Body – two ghosts take on their grandkids to stop them selling the house

The End of Class – Comedy sci-fi script for high school students

comedy sci-fi script for high school students

THE END OF CLASS – COMEDY SCI-FI SCRIPT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

It’s first period, April 1 in this script for high school students.  The students are sitting in their TV Production/Media classroom waiting for their teacher, Mr Best, to begin the lesson. The bell rings and he leaves the classroom only to return a few seconds later clearly upset. He’s acting very strange, nothing like “cool” teacher the students are used to. Finally he comes out with shocking news that there is nothing out there, outside the classroom. The halls, classrooms, and offices are all empty. Everyone has quite simply vanished. But is it real, is he telling the truth or is it a joke? What should the students do? Who wants to be first to leave? Is this the end?

Other plays by author Tim Brown – Irish Jack – play about a young Jewish by who leaves his family to wed his Irish sweetheart.

Author: Tim Brown

Type: One act play

Genre: Teen, sci-fi, comedy script for high school students

Cast: Cast of nine, 6M 3F

Length: Just over 10 minutes

Ages of the actors: One adult, rest teen

Suitable for: All ages to watch, young teens up to perform

Set:TV Studio and classroom – Hamden HS – 8:25
There are a number of editing stations/computers
as well as cameras and equipment used in a high
school TV studio.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 easy dialogue. Creating a believable scenario by building tension

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Like this play? Other teen sci-fi, horror and fantasy plays to thrill you:

Boy-1 – science fiction play for teens
Mirror – play for younger teens in which a princess makes her suitors disappear into an eerie world inside her mirror.
The Witch’s cackle – one act ghost story for Halloween

Lovely, dark and deep – one act science fiction play

one act science fiction play

LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP – ONE ACT SCIENCE FICTION PLAY

It’s an arsehole world we live in. You know it, I know it, Dee knows it. Dee knows it well enough for her to lose sleep over it. Pondering the injustices and outraged over the indelicacies of
the human spirit, her only question is ‘Why’?

Although he cannot answer for the world and what it has become, Dee’s dad takes it upon himself to explain why things could be worse and how humanity is not completely forsaken. It’s a story he knows all too well, one he has mulled over all his years since it first aggressively presented itself to him. It is a story that, like many others, is at its core, a lesson and ironically; the lesson was never intended for him.

This is the story: Once upon a time, a guy decided to play a practical joke in which a weird unearthly sound would terrify his wife, in order to cure her of her supernatural superstition. Only, little did he know that his joke would lead to another dimension altogether, a dimension dangerous and deadly. The only way out would be to retain his humanity.

The greatest story ever told, will be yours.

Read about playwright Pete Mesling

Author: Pete Mesling

Genre: One act play, science fiction

Type: One act play

Length: Thirty five minutes

Cast: Cast of eight to nine. 5F, 3M, 1N

Ages of the actors: One older child, one young woman, the rest adult to older.

Suitable for: Teen and adult actors. One child actress in the script, could be played by a young teen.
Slightly scary for young children to watch.

Set: Various – a porch, a bedroom, the cellar, another dimension. Can be staged in various locations on stage, with minimal furniture or at the director’s discretion.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – scene changes

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Copyright © March 2017 Pete Mesling and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one act sci-fi and horror plays for you to enjoy:

An ordinary man – comedy about a guy who is tired of being a werewolf. Really tired.
Mister Hislop’s dating agency – just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you can’t date!
Starline 117 – a man is found waiting in an airport for a flight that will never come

The Lady of the Lake Murder – a murder mystery script

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THE LADY OF THE LAKE MURDER – A MURDER MYSTERY SCRIPT

It is the annual meeting of the Shadow Council, a group of powerful immortals headed by Merlin. Among the chartered members of the Council are Morgan le Fay, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot and Niniane, the infamous Lady of the Lake. Also in attendance are three young Wardens assigned to protect an immortal charge. Unfortunately, The Lady of the Lake had been murdered in this Arthurian murder mystery script.

It was (almost) a perfect murder. The tracks were (mostly) covered up. The Lady of the Lake, Nianine had not been seen a while(ish) and the council of Immortals; his serene magicness Merlin, her royal, dark highness Queen Guinevere, her royal lover Sir Lancelot and a beautiful Morgan Le Fay; would (most likely) be certainly happy to hear of Nianine’s death. The happiness amongst the Immortals would (probably) be ten-fold as they are forbidden from killing one another and so none could be charged with the crime. So who did it then? The Inquisitor is about to find out and he’s happy to have us in on the inquisition as the investigation unfolds and a certain Warden may become a ward of the fates.

As the time for the meeting draws near and the immortals begin to gather it comes to light that each of the immortals has a grudge against Niniane, including her own Warden. When it is learned Niniane has been murdered, beheaded with Excalibur, an artifact entrusted to her Warden accusations begin to fly and it becomes the responsibility of the Councils Chief Inquisitor, a stereotypical police investigator, to learn the truth and bring the murderer to justice. The penalty for this crime is death.

The Lady of the Lake Murder is a mystery steeped in Arthurian Lore drawn from the works of Mallory and the Vulgate Cycle.

Read about playwright David Schmidt. Other scripts – The Dark Chronicles of the Golden Raven Society: A horror script by David

Author: David Schmidt

Genre: Murder mystery script, whodunit

Type: Two act play

Cast: 4M, 4F but the inquisitor can also be played by a F instead of a M.

Ages of the actors: Adult – young adults to older

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 45 – 60 minutes

Set: The secret chamber of the Shadow Council. UP LEFT CENTER is a large stone fireplace. Heavy wooden doors on each side of the fireplace lead into and out of the chamber. CENTER is a small, round table draped with a purple and black table cloth that goes to the ground. In the center of the table is a clawed plinth with a crystal ball on top of it. Behind the table, set in a semi-circle, are four throne-like chairs. The center two chairs are larger than the two that flank them. A fire appears to be glowing in the fireplace.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – a lovely mix of a typical hard-boiled whodunit detective story and mythical characters

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Like this play? Other whodunits for you to enjoy:

Parlor City Noir – a Film Noir classic whodunit script
Mascot Masquerade – a whodunit play set at a masked ball
Murder and other fun things

Parade day – two act drama about Roswell, years later

DRAMA about Roswell

PARADE DAY – TWO ACT DRAMA ABOUT ROSWELL, YEARS LATER

Things could not be worse for east coast pharmaceutical sales Edward Laurens. His life is a disaster – the wife’s left him and he knows he’s going to lose his job.

Edward’s idea to cope, or avoid it all, is drive across the country on route to Californian to his annual sales meetings. And between the east and west coasts, maybe he find himself. That’s a glorious notion.

Alone and wandering through New Mexico the past week, Edward runs his life through his head until he’s so utterly depressed he’s at the end of it. And then he stops at the Flying Saucer Diner in Roswell, New Mexico.

Edward doesn’t know Roswell celebrates its notoriety as the place where a flying saucer crashed years ago, or so the town proclaims through years of hype and cheesy promotion.

His luck could not get any worse; it’s the day of the town’s annual flying saucer parade. He walks into the diner and meets the owner, Buddy. Buddy is the last living eyewitness to the infamous crash. Buddy hates everything about the town’s zany celebration and the parade, and takes Edward to be “one” of them – a crazy UFO fanatic.

The town’s mayor wants Buddy to ride down Main Street in the parade, but Buddy refuses. The town sees him as a stubborn and bitter old man. What no one understands is that he’s no longer sure what did happen that day of the crash. He’s angry that at the end of his life, all he’s become is the last living witness and nothing more.

Then Edward meets Buddy’s waitress, Katie. She ‘s an intriguing small town girl with a string of bad relationships that have not diminished her big dreams – if she knew what they were. She is desperate to leave, desperate to find love, desperate to be loved. There is a spark between the withdrawn Edward and Katie that pushes them both to attempt to try to change their lives.

The play is fleshed out with the comings and goings of various characters that wander into the diner, each with different agendas, from weirdness to cruelty.

In PARADE DAY, the crash, aliens, and the ridiculous circus that envelops the town, become a metaphor about drift and detachment from one another, and our need to be understood. The play brings Buddy, Edward, and Katie to the lines they have drawn in the dirt, opening the door to the possibility for them all to step back across.

Read about award winning playwright Terry Roueche. Other plays (Roots and Wings – award winning one act drama) by Terry.

Author: Terry Roueche

Genre: Drama about Roswell

Type: Two act play, full length romantic comedy drama

Cast: Main characters 3M 1F, Smaller characters, some of which can be played by the same actors: 3M 3F

Ages of the actors: Cast of adults ages 20 to 70

Suitable for: All ages but meant for adults

Length: 1.5 to 2 hours

Set: Flying Saucer Diner, Roswell, New Mexico

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – lovely comedy drama romance with a touch of sci fi written by one of our best selling award winning authors.

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Like this play? Other plays of a similar genre:

Starline 117 – Science fiction stage play. A man is found sitting in the airport, waiting for a flight that will never arrive.
Great Land – a journey of discovery as two people travel to Graceland in search of the King
Aldous remembers – a drama romance about losing your memories including those of the people you love

Starline 117 – science fiction stage play

 

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STARLINE 117 – SCIENCE FICTION STAGE PLAY

In this science fiction stage play, Edgar Stanson has been sitting in the same seat for two days in a small airport. When asked by security if he needs assistance he tells them he has arrived on Starline flight 117 and is waiting to be picked up by his driver.
Security tells him they will call his driver for him. He gives them the number to call. The phone number connects to a funeral home. When security go back to Edgar they find him dead.

They also find out that Starline was a small airline whose first flight 117 crashed twenty five years ago with no survivors. All bodies but one were found and they were taken to the funeral home which security called. Edgar Stanson has finally returned home.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

“Starline 117” was produced as a radio play by Shoestring Theater Productions.
Chariton High School, IA, USA – 2017
Olli Players, VA- USE – 2021
Rightway Club, WI, USA – 2021
Arlington School Theatre, SD, USA – 2021
Mountain Ridge High School Theatre, AZ, USA – 2022
Rocky Ford Junior Senior High School, CO, USA – 2023

Read other sci-fi screenplays – shadows of time – when you travel through time for the woman you love by Stan Jankaitis.

Author: Stan Jankaitis

Genre: Science fiction stage play, ghost story

Type: One act play

Cast: 4M, 3F, 3N and a few extras (optional as not essential to the plot)

Ages of the actors: Any, all adult

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 25-30 minutes

Set: AIRPORT TERMINAL
Minimum: Few rows of seats. Security desk with telephone.
FULL SET:
Same as minimum but with a backdrop of the inside of an airport terminal with a window.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – making the ordinary into the extraordinary

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Boy 1 – science fiction play for teens

 

science fiction play for teens

BOY 1- SCIENCE FICTION PLAY FOR TEENS

It is the future in a female dominated society. Artificial insemination guarantees the birth of female babies only but a mistake has been made. Twins are born and the boy, Stephen, also known as boy-1 is allowed to live, but without him knowing, his every move is being watched by a group known as ‘The Operation.’ The twins are separated at a young age, and Stephen is sent to live with a family who watch him grow. However, he never forgets his twin, Seneca and one day when he meets her by accident, he follows her to her apartment.

Seneca is however, not who she seems to be, as she is totally loyal to the operation, hating all men. When he has gone, she reports Stephen to the Operation, and in the middle of the night, Stephen is kidnapped by two Operation girls and is brought to Operation Headquarters where he is made a prisoner. Doctor Cartise, the ruler entrusts Liberty, a male hating young woman to guard Stephen who remains under their control for months.

However, Seneca, who is a favourite of Dr Cartise becomes aware that Liberty and Stephen have grown dangerously close and confronts Stephen, who tells her everything, never believing his own sister would betray him to The Operation, and thus his own death….

Author: Claire Caviglia

Type: One act play

Genre: Science fiction play for teens

Cast: 18F 1M

Ages of the actors: Older children, teens and a few adults but all can be played by teens of various ages, with make up

Suitable for: PG 10 (Mild violence end of play)

Length: 45 minutes

Set: The stage is split into a number of scenes – an office, an apartment or bedroom and the orphanage.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 crowd control and scene changes

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Cost is $6 for this previously staged digital science fiction play for teens

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2093 – the time 2093 and Psi, a man with ampplified mind powers must fight the evil corporation in this screenplay
Death’s no laughing matter -a young actress strikes a bargain with death
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