SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYS
These South African Play Scripts are all by South African authors. From the township drama, to the South African pantomime as well as dramas and South African Comedies, we have it all.
A Cut Above the Rest – a farce in one act
A Saucy Tail – a short punny skit for two
A Snitch in Time – time travelling comedy adventure for teens and young people
Aboard Disorder – Short satire about Mental Disorders
After Ever After – a fairytale musical for schools
Anna, alone – one act drama about a girl dealing with multiple personality disorder
Arcanum – one act comedy about friends and love
Blanket – a female monologue about loss and betrayal
Boykie and Girlie – a drama about a failing relationship
Butterfly Kisses – a drama about a family pushed to the edge by a kidnapping
Call me Stan – a dark comedy about the ‘not so ideal’ boyfriend
Chatter – a love story and a case of mistaken identity in one act
Chicken, airbags and wors – South African comedy scripts
Choices – South African plays for teenagers
Comrade Babble – a political satire about an undead businessman, with unfinished business.
Death of a Gerbil – dark comedy in one act
Dinner Date – A short psycho thriller
Disruptions of an Impressionable Tea – comedy about making a good impression on the Reverend
Don’t Knock – comedy thriller script
Don’t say you’re Harry – a two act farce
Don’t Shrink Me! – one act comedy script
Extra Lessons – a play dealing with the taboo of teacher student relations
Family Planning – Two person sketch about planning family reunions
Finding my Root – South African Monologue
Guy meets Girl – a one man comedy show or routine
Happy Reality – fairytale story for adults
Jerico – script about the fall of Jerico and of man
Joined at the hip – South African comedy scripts
Le Shaggy dog – award winning comedy set in wartime France
Leonardo – a murder mystery set around Leonardo Da Vinci
Letters of Love – romantic couple drama – one gets sent to war and these are the letters they write
Life’s Just a Merry Go Round – comedy about trying to kill your spouse
Luke Warm – superhero play script
Making Friends – short comedy sketch about a supermarket queue
Miss Independent – one act comedy about what not to do when your marriage goes down the toilet
My Middle Name is Angry – a two-hander comedy in one act
Once Upon a Term – play for children age 5 to 12
One Fine Day at the Car Dealership – comedy sketch about drivers who think they own the road
One Fine Day at the Vet – comedy sketch about a nutty client
Pillow Talk – a dramatic monologue/duologue for 1/2F about abuse and murder
Ralph – a whodunit Monty Python style
Santa’s Holiday – South African Christmas play
Say What? Hilarious Adult Comedy about Dating
Sleeping Beauty – the Pantomime
Snow White and the Seven Ugly Sisters – alternative funny pantomime script
Stranger Times – play about being made to take a Holiday
The Adventure of the Unkindest Cut – Sherlock Holmes Spoof
The Appointment – ten minute comedy about customer service
The Appointment with God – a one act family drama
The Basement – a one act comedy thriller
The Call Centre – short comedy sketch about insurance call centre
The Chronicles of Jack – South African drama scripts
The Duck of the Baskervilles – punful Sherlock Holmes play
The Last Evening on Earth – a Dystopian Drama Script
The love of Cheesecake – adult comedy in one act
The Mysterious Death of Christine Wilde
The Pen – South African Play Scripts above love, reality and fantasy
The Pump Room – a Drama set in Post Apartheid South Africa
The Simple Hard – a South African township drama
Strip me to the bone – a one act sex comedy about a bachelorette party gone wrong
The Sweet Spot – Physical comedy about mobile/cell phone reception
The three unwise men – spoof nativity play
The Twelve Days of Nativity – Nativity Play for Schools and Youth Groups
The Vicar, The Four Thousand Year old Demon and the Cup of Tea
Think before you vote – South African school story
Three’s a crowd – drama about a love triangle between a girl and two gay guys
Treasured Planet – children’s play about saving the ocean
Trouble on Tatu Ween – War Stars Parody
Two Peas – short comedy sketch about twins
Waiting – the battle of the sexes with an alien twist in one act for 1M 1F
Waiting for John – drama about a family torn apart by a son’s death
Waiting for Nelson – South African Drama play
Who I am – Play for Teenage Girls
Who Killed Santa? Film Noir Comedy Spoof
You do love me, don’t you – a scary psycho thriller in one act
You wanted to see me? Comedy sketch about being late for work