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
- 15-20 actors
- Length two hours
Cancelled – an award winning one act farce set in a 1940’s radio studio
- 9M 2F and 4 non speaking policemen
- Length 50 minutes
Dick Turpin: From the Horse’s Mouth. British Pantomime!
- Cast of 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
- 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
- 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
Mack to the Past – 30 minutes ‘Shakespeare meets Back to the Future’ comedy for teens
- Cast 11 up – mixed genders
- Length 30 minutes
- Cast 3M, 2F, however each actor with smaller parts plays multiple parts. In total there are actually 9F 4M parts
- Length 90 minutes
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- Tales of Dark imagination:The Dark Chronicles of the Golden Raven society – ghost story scripts
- Cast 9-13 actors including one F older child
- Length 75-90 minutes
- 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
Theseus and Ariadne – Greek style plays
- Cast 18-28 9-10 F rest M
- Length 90 minutes
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