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Discover good plays for community theater, play scripts for community drama groups and amateur dramatic groups to perform. Find good scripts for community theatre plays with a flexible cast, Most scripts with a large cast of actors have flexible casting.  There are scripts with small casts, plays with simple easy staging, multi-racial casts, and diverse roles.

Community drama and amateur drama groups often need play scripts for small groups with a broad range of roles for casts of different ages, races and acting abilities.  Comedy scripts for community theater are most popular. Community drama groups often prefer to build an evening of theater from several short plays to give all the group members a chance to perform on stage.

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    Ten After Ten: Ten 10-Minute Comedies

    $13.70 – $110.00
    In Ten After Ten, Jack J. Berry uses unique settings to highlight current problems and issues. These short comedies can be performed as a single evening or used separately as part of a larger presentation to underscore a point. Excellent for classroom, church, or senior facility.
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  • The Art of the Duel

    $8.00 – $35.00
    A comedic look at what DUELING would be like if it were legal in the 21st century. The arbiter continues to have a thankless task.
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  • The Aviators

    $7.00 – $55.00
    Two retired Marine Corps pilots, Rory “Roar” McMahon, and his longtime squadron buddy, Austin “Toad” Campion, conspire to "escape" from the Navy Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA where they have both been admitted with a life-threatening illness. The two characters are opposites in everything except their love of flying. With the help of two old combat buddies, they plan how to outwit the hospital staff in one, last. "impossible" escapade. Great for seniors and community theaters.
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  • The Best Is Yet To Be

    $7.00 – $30.00
    Emily Mason returns home to live with her son and his family--a wife and 2 grandchildren. They have her rocking chair ready for her. The problem is, she isn't ready for it. Will her family come around and let her continue the kind of life she is used to leading?
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  • The Boarding House

    $7.95 – $50.00
    A one-act play, The Boarding House is a dramatic satire, by David.H. Klein, of the story by James Joyce. Mrs. Mooney, the owner of a boarding house of questionable reputation, exploits the wiles of her daughter Polly and the power of the Church to snare one of her more respectable boarders as her potential son-in-law.
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  • The Canterbury Tales

    $13.70 – $170.00
    This full-length comedy play with music brings rapid-fire dialogue to an old classic.  With a flexible cast, it is an excellent play for high school performances, college theaters, or community productions.  Elvgren has selected the bawdiest and most satirical tales for this version.  A sense of Chaucer's language is maintained but is made accessible to a modern audience. (Lead sheets available)
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  • The Cat in the Hat Takes Flak

    $8.00 – $35.00
    A tribute to Dr. Seuss and a parody of "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back", where Nick & Sally are savvy enough to call Social Services to deal with both The Cat and the pink snow that he created.
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  • The Chimes

    $13.70 – $200.00
    Give Scrooge a break for the winter holiday production! THE CHIMES is a full-length comedy and large-cast adaptation of another Dickens' classic Christmas/New Years tale. Toby Veck, an impoverished London porter wants to bless his daughter's marriage by New Year's Day. Alas, he doesn't have even a shilling in his pocket. Surely, the wealthy families he carries packages for will find enough work for him to do before the New Year comes and he must break a promise made on his late wife's deathbed. This Dickens' comedy is a great Christmas change-of-pace for schools, communities, and regional theaters.
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  • The Crying Tree

    $13.70 – $125.00
    A stunning drama with wonderful comic scenes, which received a special mention in the 2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. The story: in 2018, a black Congressman is caught up in a Trump impeachment battle and the alt right. Two hundred years earlier at the same plantation home, a slave is deciding whether to escape. Two parallel stories show how much has and hasn't changed about race and politics in America.
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  • The Dead

    $13.70 – $145.00

    A one-act play adapted from "The Dead" in James Joyce’s “Dubliners”

    During an annual Christmas celebration, Gabriel Conroy has to cope with his doddering aunts, discover the true nature of his relationship with his wife, Gretta, and confront his own academic pedantry.  He condescends to the provincialism of his friends, family, and his wife. But a big surprise about Gretta awaits him after he retires for the night.
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  • The Devil’s Due

    $11.97 – $55.00
    In The Devil’s Due, a one-act drama/comedy, an artist, Eric Talmadge, confronts the decline of his aesthetic powers and the possible dissolution of his marriage. In a satiric tour de force, a visitor—possibly a neighboring psychiatrist and possibly a more fearsome presence—offers him a possible way out of his dilemma. Is M. Boudreaux really an unorthodox psychiatrist practicing from his apartment in NYC or does he represent a power other than the mind? And what choice does he give Eric in order to regain his peace of mind and his artistic abilities?
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  • The Don

    $15.97 – $89.87
    41 Plays-On-A-Page convey slices of sometimes fantastical life. Sometimes biting social commentary, sometimes whimsical asides. These short dramas and comedies leave the audience guessing about their own lives and the world around them. William Heyen, National Book Award Finalist and major American poet, has turned his pen to the stage, with stellar results.
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  • The Hidden Stream

    $13.70 – $16.97
    A Poetry Collection For Spoken Word Theater. A moving, insightful autobiography combining poetry and reflection reveals the emerging life and art of a poet. Can be used selectively to construct short one-act plays. The poems are superb for spoken word theater, solo acting scripts, one-person shows, monologue plays scripts. See the script extract.
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  • The Legacy of an Invisible Father

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “The Legacy of an Invisible Father” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series “Legacy of a Father.” The short play highlights one woman’s futile attempt to locate a father through a private investigator. Angela’s lifelong loss of a father figure is further complicated by her biracial identity and her struggles with an unloving mother. Within the script, Angela must come to the terms that fate hadn’t been cruel to her at all, that maybe the absence of her father was the heavens working in her favor.
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  • The Lovely Red Flower

    $5.00 – $50.00
    A one-act children’s morality play based on a Malaysian folk tale. A group of unruly and rowdy forest characters give a group of greedy monkeys their comeuppance.  Set in a hot tropical jungle, this is a comic tale around the relative values of sloth and industry. Can be performed for and/or by children. Great for classroom readings.
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  • The Moral of the Story

    $9.00 – $50.00
    Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare meets an African Ibo legend .  This one-act comedy play script for kids reveals what inquiring minds have always wanted to know - the inside scoop behind Aesop's most famous Fable and why tortoises have cracked, lumpy shells.
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