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Another Anansi – children’s play script

children's play script

ANOTHER ANANSI – CHILDREN’S PLAY SCRIPT BASED ON A TRADITIONAL FOLK TALE

Anansi is a naughty spider. He’s also quite lazy and a trickster, preferring to trick the other animals out of their hard earned food than do the work to find his own food himself in this children’s play script.

He thinks he’s quite clever when, in the same day, he cons goat, lion, warthog and bear out of their food and settles down for a nice meal. But unbeknownst to him, the four of them have figured out what he did and together with turkey, (the brains of the outfit) they set out to con him right back!

Anansi is a traditional character that appears in both West African and Jamaican folk tales. Another Anansi and Other Animal Tales was written for a summer theater group of young actors to have fun with.

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Author: Timothy Brown

Type: One act play

Genre: Children’s play script

Cast: 6 actors.
”The casting is not gender specific so feel free to change the script if necessary and add additional dialogue especially when all the characters are speaking. ”

Ages of the actors: Children

Suitable for: Children to perform and the whole family to watch

Length: 15-20 minutes

Set: A clearing in the jungle where the main trails meet. There is a tree or two off to the side and a small boulder in the center.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – great for 7 year olds and up. Slightly younger children may find the script quite wordy.

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Copyright © April 2019 Tim Brown and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Read other similar children’s plays that would be great for your class!

Anansi and his children – a play within the collection of plays called ‘Holiday Shorts’ when Anansi’s children save him from being eaten by a giant fish
The Adventures of Mojoe and Snowy in Lochloosa
The Mystery of the Missing Meatball – for younger readers

The Girl in the Lavender Glasses – Children’s play about being different

children's play about being different

THE GIRL IN THE LAVENDER GLASSES – CHILDREN’S PLAY ABOUT BEING DIFFERENT

Like any other little girl, Marion wanted to go to school, play with her friends and be a kid. For ten months these little things that sometimes go unappreciated, became completely off-limits to Marion when she was hospitalised due to a rare eye condition. Dr Williams had the child’s eyes bandaged completely for her time in the hospital and she had no existence beyond the doors of her hospital bed in this children’s play about being different.

One day, Marion’s parents and Marion herself were presented with a donation of night eye glasses to help her see in her everyday life. She would get back to her normal routine before the hospitalisation. Marion’s story then began again and ended where her new world took shape and in three acts, this drama shows that the ones amoungst us who are scorned for being different, are magic.

She was a friend, she was a daughter, she was a girl, and she was a hero.

Author: John Zurn

Type: Children’s play about being different

Genre: Children’s drama

Cast: 10F, 11M, 6-10N. Mains: 2 – M, 2 – F

Ages of the actors: Children to adult

Suitable for: Children up

Length: Thirty minutes

Set: Doctor’s Office, her school, a restaurant, library, the family home, the playground, a house. Scene changes can be simple, to indicate basic changes , like a chair and tables moving round.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – crowd control and scene changes

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Copyright © February 2019 John Zurn and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other plays for kids dealing with social issues and bullying.

In tents – one act play about bullying
Molly and the Magic Phone – musical play for children
The Christmas Ghosts – modern Scrooge play for kids

Puss in Boots in the Wild West – Puss in Boots Pantomime script

puss in boots pantomime script

PUSS IN BOOTS IN THE WILD WEST – PUSS IN BOOTS PANTOMIME SCRIPT

A traditional Puss in boots pantomime script for a large cast set in the American Wild West with a story based on the story of Puss in Boots.

Dame Calamity Jean and the townsfolk of Dodgy City have their livelihoods threatened by the notorious gunslinging outlaw, Wild Wilma and her incompetent gang, El Zorillo and the three Amoebas. When a dancer visits from the Windy City with his inherited cat, the
townsfolk put on their dancing shoes and find a way to stand up to Wilma and save the town.

Read other children’s plays by Kate – the best seller Alien Research and also The Pied Piper of Hawaii – trouble in the Wild West.

Author: Kate Goddard

Genre: Puss in Boots Pantomime Script

Type: Two-act full length pantomime

Cast: Large cast – 43 characters are listed but many can be doubled or reduced (as in listed numbers of chorus)

Ages of the actors: Primary school and up

Suitable for: All ages both to perform and to watch

Length: Two hours

Set: Various – Mainly a Saloon, various scenes in front of curtain, a desert scene.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 accents – no problem if you’re actually American.

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Copyright © May 2017 Kate Goddard and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this panto? Other pantos for you to giggle over:

The Wizard of Odd – pantomime wizard of Oz
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves – traditional British Snow White panto
Wotcha! Gotcha! Steam punk panto based on Alice in Wonderland

Ursula – fairytale play about a princess who becomes a bear

fairytale play about a princess

URSULA – FAIRYTALE PLAY ABOUT A PRINCESS WHO BECOMES A BEAR

Ursula is seventeen and is a prisoner, trapped inside her own castle by her father, the King. Although he does it because he wishes to protect her, Ursula wants to see the sun and explore the world, no matter how dangerous it might be. Her nurse, who is also a witch, by the way, gives her a magic cloak that, when she wears it, transports her out of the castle. But it also transforms her into a big brown bear. She almost gets shot by a Handsome prince hunting in the forest, but luckily she she can still talk, she astonishes him with her powers of speech and he takes her home to become a servant in his house. There, disguised as a bear, she gets to know him and also falls in love with him. When there is a ball, she removes her bear cloak and dances with him as a beautiful stranger.

But little does he know that his own bear and the beauty are one and the same…

‘Ursula’ is a great fairytale play for children, with a princess that’s both outlandish and a breath of fresh air. It’s a Cinderella story with flair!

There is one song in the script – music is provided by the author.

Production History

Cora Howe School, TN, USA – 2017
Heriot Junior Drama, United Kingdom – 2019
London School of Public Relations –  Jakarta, Indonesia – 2021

 

Author: Jerry Fogel

Type: One act play

Genre: Fairytale play, play about a princess

Length: Thirty to Forty minutes

Cast: 3F, 2M

Ages of the actors: Three supposed to be middle aged to older adults, two are younger

Suitable for: Children and younger teens.

Set: Two castles, the forest and a ballroom. Simple changes can easily be made

Level of difficulty: 6/10 natural speech

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Copyright © November 2016 Jerry Fogel and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other fairytales for you to enjoy:

The wandering Bard’s tale – children’s one act fairytale
Shriek! the fairytale pantomime
Mirror – fairytale about a spoiled princess for younger teens

Brooklands Blooming Cats – script for children’s musical

script for children's musical

BROOKLANDS BLOOMING CATS – SCRIPT FOR CHILDREN’S MUSICAL

It is better to have purred in the right direction, than never to have purred at all.

Cats!! From the purr, to the meow and the love of milk, the slit like pupils see, the triangular nose smells and the keen ears hear… that something is not right. The vibrant cats of Brookland’s School sense that all is unwell when their caretaker Mr. Morgan fails to show up to school with food for the day. Starving from hunger, annoyed at his betrayal of their stomachs and worried at the cause of his delay, when (whom they assume to be) Mr. Morgan finally does show up they rush to eat, none the wiser about a meal that will imprison them and have their claws harvested for gold by the stature-challenged and metal-obsessed, W’Evil. In this script for children’s musical, it is up to the cats to rescue themselves, rescue Mr. Morgan and save W’Evil from himself (probably) too. All in a cat’s 24 hours considering they sleep twelve to sixteen hours a day…

See a Youtube video of a BBC production of the book Blooming Cats by David Morgan

Other children’s books by David

Spiders Love to Snuggle

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Wonderful Wiggling Whirling Worms

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Busy Bees and Willful Wasps

Busy Bees and Willful Wasps Paperback – Illustrated, 15 Nov. 2019

A Very Merry Critters’ Christmas

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Butterfly Beauties and Magical Moths

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Ants Are fANTastic

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Author: David Morgan

Genre: Script for children’s musical

Type: Two-act play

Length: One and a half hours

Cast: 25 plus choir. 

Ages of the actors: Primary school age

Suitable for: Primary school children

Set: Scene 1: MR MORGAN’s ‘living’ room/Playground of Brooklands School
Scene 2: Brooklands’ Basement Lab
Scene 3: Brooklands’ playground
Scene 4: Brooklands’ Basement Lab / Front stage
Scene 5: Brooklands’ Basement Lab
Scene 6: Park/ outside MR MORGAN’s House

Although there are scene changes they can be very easily accomplished with moving minimal furniture or more elaborately with backdrops.

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – half the play is made of songs so there aren’t too many long lines to learn and with many different characters, each child can learn his or her her part well.

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Listen to some of the songs on sound cloud:

What is wrong?

Anybody home

My name is Weevil

Billy Boggle

Oh, what shall we do!

Free school

We’ll follow our whiskers

The Chase

All’s well that ends well

Hyacinth Bloom




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Copyright © March 2016 David Morgan and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other children’s musicals and plays:

Molly and the magic phone – children’s short musicals
Trolls stole the North Pole – Christmas play
Dr George’s Magnificent Zeppelin – musical children’s plays

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Puppet show – a short play for children

short play for children

PUPPET SHOW – SHORT PLAY FOR CHILDREN

In this short play for children, a child loses his or her new teddy bear and enlists their older sibling’s help to find it. There are three versions of the play – one with all girls, one with all boys and one with a mixed cast. The short play is ideal for junior or primary school for children aged 7-11 years of age. The play has been previously produced.

Read more about playwright Evan Guilford Blake. Other children’s plays by Evan.

Author: Evan Guilford-Blake

Genre: Children’s play

Type: Short one act play

Length: Five 5 minutes

Cast: Three – two younger and one older child. The script is available for either an all boy, all girl or mixed cast.

Ages of the actors: Ages 7-11

Suitable for: Children

Set: A bedroom shared by the twins. It has two beds, a desk, at least two chairs and a closet. The closet door may be suggested rather than actual.

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – a nice interactive children’s piece. The most difficult thing may be moving the set itself.

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Copyright © 2002 as an unpublished dramatic work by Guilford-Blake Corp

Like this play? Other children’s plays that we stock:

A fairly tall adventure – adventure play for kids
Adventures of Mojoe and Snowy in Lochloosa – kids play set in the alligator filled swamps of Florida
Aladdin – comedy script

 

Alice in Football Land – plays for children

ALICE IN FOOTBALL LAND – PLAYS FOR CHILDREN

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This fast paced retelling of the classic Alice in Wonderland is updated to modern times and set in a football stadium, where the Riverdale Rabbits are facing their rivals, the Duncan Dormice.

Alice, cheerleader for the Riverdale Rabbits, falls from the top of the pyramid and finds herself lost in the stadium desperately seeking Tod (the star quarterback) her ‘true love’. Along the way she encounters a strange group of characters; a coach who can’t control his players, a band leader whose band plays animals as musical instrument, the water boy who only serves water at his tea party, the referees who can’t decide what penalty to call, and the Cheshire Brand Hot Dog vendor who gives her cryptic and confusing clues. As Alice finds what she searches for, she realizes that she was chasing after the wrong things the whole time.

Alice in Football was performed at the Parkside Playhouse, Vicksburg, MS, June 24-26, 2010.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Ursuline Academy, OH, USA – 2018
Ouachita Little Theater, AK, USA – 2018

Read more about playwright Richard Van Den Akker. Other children’s plays by Richard.

Author: Richard Van Den Akker

Genre: Plays for children, fairytale

Type: Three act play

Number of actors: Nineteen plus, Cast 19-29. 1M, 2F, the rest either M or F. Actors may play up to four different roles.

Ages of the actors: Older children and younger teens

Suitable for: Kids and younger teens

Set: The football field and sidelines

Level of Difficulty:  7/10 crowd control.

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Copyright June 2014 Richard  Van Den Akker and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Have a look at some other large cast children’s plays:

Adventures of Moe Joe and Snowy in Lochloosa – an alligator adventure
The poetry machine – play for children
The Wandering bard’s Tale – a fairytale in one act

 

 

The Dragons of Spring – two-act comedy script for teenagers

two-act comedy script for teenagers
Teen Plays

THE DRAGONS OF SPRING – A TWO-ACT COMEDY SCRIPT FOR TEENAGERS

 

In this two-act comedy script for teenagers, King Bob is informed by the ‘Queen for a day,’ his wife, that it is high time that their daughter, Clementine was married, being at the ripe of age of fifteen.  Clementine, however is, desperately in love with Claudius, the castle plumber.  In an effort to ensure that she marries someone of noble blood, the King and Queen issue a Royal Decree stating that anyone who kills the local dragon will win 5000 pounds.  (And in small print,”Marry the Princess Clementine.”)

two-act play script for teenagers

When the Princess Clementine hears about this, she is determined that her true love, Claudius, the plumber shall be the one to slay the dragon and so she drags the unwilling Claudius and her maidservant to the forest to slay the dragon.  However, her younger sister is determined that Clementine shall be married, to whoever, so that she can get her Clementine’s bedroom. So she drags her maidservant off to the forest to slay the dragon, and to pin it on one of the local elderly knights sent by the King to perform this errand.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Home School Academy Drama Club, USA – 2022

 

Author:Richard Van Den Akker

Genre: Adventure fairytale for younger teens

Type: Two-act play

Length: One hour and ten minutes

Number of actors: 16-20, sixteen to twenty  12M,  5F, rest anything

Level of difficulty: 7/10 Easy script and quite funny. There are special effects but how to make them is well described by the playwright in a separate document

Set: There are four scenes and three sets – the throne room, the village green and the woods. these can easily be accomplished with backdrops and minimal furnishings.

Read more about playwright Richard Van Den Akker.

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Copyright July 2013 Richard Van Den Akker and Off The Wall Play Publishing

Like this play? Looking for something different?

Sleeping Beauty – the modern day pantomime

After ever after – a fairytale musical for high schools

The condition – a humorous look at an the inhabitants of an insane asylum

Missing the Mark – a farce in 2 acts where 2 on artists get conned!