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Scripts for Plays for Senior Theater & Older Actors

One-act plays, short plays, and full-length plays for senior theatre, senior drama clubs, reader’s theater, senior citizens to perform.

Also, they can be performed for seniors and elderly audiences in retirement communities, assisted living facilities, and senior living communities. The plays show senior characters, older people and mature adults as they live exciting and sometimes precarious lives.

These stage plays about aging have roles for mature, older actors from 40 + to 70 +.  Plays written for older actors are often hard to find, These stage plays are ideal for presenting engaging theater for retirement communities, care home and nursing home residents and senior center acting groups. 

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    A Cold Day in Hell

    $11.97 – $45.00
    A Cold Day in Hell portrays one man’s effort at resolving his despair at his dilemma of having a hospitalized, comatose wife, apparently with no hope of recovery, and grown children who seem to him to be self-absorbed and detached from his plight. A tour-de-force single-character play by author Jan Quackenbush, its actor, Michael Liscio was awarded a 1988 Los Angeles Dramalogue Award in a long-running production by the California Cottage Theatre, 1988-1991.
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  • A Touch of Frost

    $11.97 – $49.95
    Three 20-minute comedies in one act.  Wilford, from New York, has just bought and moved to a new homestead in Vermont, but he realizes that his new neighbors may not be from this planet! Mila, her son Klig, and husband Kulerie Klee, live on a farm next to Wilford’s and their adjoining farms are separated only by a stone wall which is beginning to fall apart. What to do? Knock it down? Build it back? – and what are they walling in and walling out? Can be performed by high school, college, university students or groups.
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  • ABC’s of Memory

    $14.70 – $75.00
    Lianne's ABCs of Memory touch on cultural milestones such as Elvis, Nancy Drew, Wonder Bread, 9-11, and Ty Cobb, as well as personal memories of family life. These poems both celebrate and mourn America's past and present. These are dramatic poems. Life happens. Events occur. Here is an elegy for our American Dream. As such. these poems are naturals for forensics, scene study, and spoken word events.
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  • Attack at the Pierre Fontaine

    $9.00 – $75.00
    In this one-act comedy for seniors, a group of long-time friends and residents of the Pierre Fontaine Hotel are alarmed by the increasing dangers in the outside world. One of their members has "news" of an imminent attack. Together, they try to plan a defense strategy (including duct tape?????) which will protect them all. The hilarious but semi-serious results unfold...
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  • D. D.The Concise Christmas Carol

    $7.95 – $75.00
    A 50-minute condensed monologue adapted from Charles Dickens' Scrooge. How the ghosts who haunt him, eventually transform a lonely, stingy, bitter old man into a generous, infectiously cheerful humanitarian. D.D. Delaney, a professional actor, playwright, journalist, and poet has adapted the familiar holiday classic for the stage. Written as a monologue, it can also be performed by 4 actors.   Ideal for Christmas celebrations, house performances, and readers theater.  Downloadable PDF available.
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  • ElderPair: Four Senior Courtship Comedies

    $9.00 – $50.00
    Four one-act comedy plays for seniors by Pat Montley, for the young-at-heart senior community, these plays dramatize a variety of romantic relationships among characters who are determined to live their lives to the fullest. They may be performed as a complete program for the evening or separately as short plays. Running time is about 10 - 15 minutes apiece. Great for senior or retirement communities. Downloadable, printable PDF available.
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  • Friends and Relations

    $11.00 – $60.00
    A collection of short comedies for seniors by Evan Guilford-Blake. The short comedies may be performed separately or together by a cast of as few as five or as many as 10. Contains: - Old Friends -Two strangers meet on a park bench, - The Baby - A pregnancy brings new challenges into old relationships - Strangers in the Night - An older woman meets a younger man on the deck of the SS Sinatra, a recreational cruise ship, somewhere in the Caribbean
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    From the Back Seat

    $60.00
    A one-act family comedy with senior actors. Who controls the family car? Harold promised to give Emma a more exciting life. But who will be in the driving seat?  Their 40-year old  daughter and son-in-law think Harold  is past it, but he wants to show them he still has what it takes.  This play works well for community theaters, senior groups, and Readers Theater.
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  • Going to the Dogs

    $6.97 – $17.99
    In this 10-Minute original farce, a free-thinking retired woman, Sylvia, discovers that her deceased husband has been reincarnated as her dog. A surreal and hilarious Fantasy/Comedy by Pamela Steadman. Acting script.
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  • I Love Jack Kerouac

    $11.00 – $30.00
    Three short quirky contemporary romantic comedies for senior performers. In the title play, a lonely waitress finds hope through a character strangely resembling Jack Kerouac.  In "A Rose, A Cane" an aging couple comes to terms with their declining years. In "Two Roads Diverge", a Vermont farmer encounters life of the strangest kind during a chance meeting at a fence at his property's fence line...
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  • Independence Day

    $11.00 – $30.00
    In these three short comedies for seniors by Marj O'Neill-Butler,  characters of a certain age struggle against grown children, spouses, or former tormentors to maintain their own psychological and social independence.
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  • Library Wars

    $11.57 – $60.00
    School and public libraries, bastions of free access to information, are threatened. “Library Wars” begins with an ordinary setting: a local library board meeting. Everything’s routine until someone arrives with what might be a weapon, and new members propose banning books with race-oriented, gay, and transsexual themes and characters.
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  • Moments of Madness

    $13.70 – $110.00
    A short play collection by Jack J. Berry consists mainly of short comedies. Berry loves to stand the world on its head. A comedy about attempted assassin John J. Hinkley? Travel from Old Testament to WWII in a matter of minutes? These short plays can be produced as an evening of theater or individually as introductions to meetings and events. 
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  • Off Our Rockers

    $13.70 – $110.00
    This collection of madcap 10-minute comedies appeals to everyone from teens to seniors. Casts include elves, grumpy homophobic neighbors, and a troupe of historical characters come to life.
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  • Original Relocation

    $6.97 – $29.95
    Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.
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  • Short Plays for Long Lives

    $16.97 – $110.00
    A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors.  They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group.  These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.
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