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Darren
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Joined: 6/11/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
 Topic: Plays for middle and high school agePosted: 10/16/08 at 12:39am |
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I haven't seen this come up for a while. Does anyone have any great suggestions for plays for middle and/or high school age students? I'm looking for something that may have some name recognition and can include kids anywhere from age 10 to 18.
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Debflo
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Joined: 6/06/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 60 |
Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:00pm |
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How simple of a script are you looking for? Musical or straight play? One act, or full length? More details will help us recommend some scripts.
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Check out The Denver Theatre Examiner! http://www.examiner.com/x-474-Denver-Theater-Examiner
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Darren
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Posted: 10/16/08 at 10:27pm |
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Thanks. I'm open to any ideas, but most interested in non-musicals. Either one-act or full-length can work. It doesn't need to be incredibly simple to produce, but not overly involved with multiple sets or effects either.
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donzolidis
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Joined: 5/15/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 156 |
Posted: 10/16/08 at 11:32pm |
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I've written a ton of plays for youth (I'm a middle and high school theatre teacher in real life), and I've published 23 of them through playscripts. My most successful play has been The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, which has received 130+ productions in the past year, (making it something like the 2nd or 3rd most popular one-act in America this year! Yay, me.)
You can check out my stuff here, and you can read all of the plays online by clicking on read sample.
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www.donzolidis.com
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Shanahan
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Joined: 5/08/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
Posted: 10/17/08 at 9:36am |
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Laughter guaranteed. Plays by John Shanahan
http://www.johnshanahan.net Dinner for Several One Before Forty Bob's Date Brushstroke Worst Possible Time for Writer's Block & more! |
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Debflo
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Joined: 6/06/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 60 |
Posted: 10/17/08 at 2:23pm |
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A few that I like:
There are a couple by Jonathan Rand -
"The Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World" and "Check Please"
also there is a great version of "The Wizard of Oz" - the version adapted by Ann Coulter Martens (non musical).
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Darren
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Posted: 10/17/08 at 3:20pm |
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Thanks! Quite a few of those look like they could work.
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RutTut
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Joined: 5/25/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 11/18/08 at 10:41pm |
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I'm head of a theatre department that does plays from K-12. We do mainly musicals for middle and grade school students--past selections have been Grease-School Edition, Seussical Jr., Honk Jr., Narnia. Some good non-musical scripts I have seen include Anne of Green Gables, James and the Giant Peach, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Garden. Our high school just did Les Miserables-School Edition and we're doing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) in the spring. Past non musical high school titles have included The Cherry Orchard, Dearly Departed, Picnic, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, The Miracle Worker. We're kinda ambitious, but our summer camps have done plays like Big Bad Wolf, Bugz, Kiddleywinks. Good luck and happy reading
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Pamw
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Joined: 7/23/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 20 |
Posted: 11/19/08 at 8:21pm |
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Look at Pioneer Drama Service, Playscripts, and Anchorage Press Plays for a lot of appropriate materials. I must also add the wonderful "Junior" musicals that MTI has as well as "G2K" from Rogers and Hammerstein as "name brand" but doable.
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Theatrefolk
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Joined: 10/26/08 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
Posted: 11/21/08 at 9:31pm |
Everything in our catalogue is suitable for high school production: http://www.theatrefolk.com/products Nearly everything is middle-school friendly. We list our most-recommended middle school picks here: http://www.theatrefolk.com/products/suitability/2-middle-school-plays |
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Theatrefolk: Scripts for High Schools, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools
http://www.theatrefolk.com |
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