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Play Scripts on Compassion & Empathy

Find plays on empathy and compassion for teens, adults and children. Plays are written to develop empathy for the characters and demonstrate characters showing compassion for others.  Includes short plays, comedies, dramas, 10-minute plays, poetic dramas and full-length plays.

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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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  • Alice in Wonderland

    $13.70 – $145.00
    A delightful, one-act play script adapted from the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Staying true to the original, this adaptation for the stage brings all the characters of the original Wonderland to life. Great for classrooms with a diverse student body, for children's theater, competitions and for reader's theater.
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  • All Dressed Up

    $7.97 – $75.00
    A one-act high school comedy / drama, Melissa has been taught what she is "supposed to" learn as a young woman: to be dependent, to bat her eyelashes, never to win a game against a boy.  How well does this education help her when she has to make important decisions about sexual activity. Great for teen drama groups and touring.  PDF download available.
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  • An Evening With Joyce’s Women

    $9.95 – $90.00

    A trilogy of one-act plays, The Boarding House,  Eveline, and The Dead

    Based on Dubliners by James Joyce; adapted for the stage to allow us to enter the lives of three Dublin women. Dublin society of the first decade of the 20th Century comes to life through the frustrations, fantasies, and follies of Irish women who are also victims and victimizers of their mates.
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  • Angel Band

    $11.99 – $110.00
    Leaders of the snake-handling Signs Following Church in the hills of Appalachia are threatened by the snakes they handle to prove their Godliness and by the law enforcement and child welfare agencies of the surrounding community.  They live side-by-side with the Blue People, a society of outcasts whose skin is marked by a blue skin tone.  Into the mix comes Jay, a shy, possibly autistic, journalist intent on uncovering the secret world of these hidden cultures.
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  • Backwards from Winter

    $13.70 – $16.97
    Backwards from Winter is a modern opera, a  “monodrama for soprano, electric cello, computer, and video." Composed by Douglas Knehans with libretto by Juanita Rockwell,  is the story of a young woman who loses her lover in a fatal accident. The story is told in four scenes – one representing each season.
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  • Between Trains

    $9.95 – $80.00
    In this strangely magical play with songs, a woman wakes up in a train station someplace between Maybe and Nowhere. Everyone she meets is waiting for something or going somewhere, but she's just looking for a way out. The play explores how we get stuck and how we get unstuck – and what can happen in those crucial moments when how we respond makes all the difference . . . Great for site-specific theaters or professional theaters, as well as college and university venues.
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  • Brendan’s Journey

    $13.70 – $60.00
    In this picaresque comedy/drama for 2 actors,  Brendan and a companion journey in a small boat to the 'promised land over the waves.'  Using props and costumes, the actors portray pivotal and conflicting characters from their past friendship. Gradually, they confront and resolve differences that threaten their relationship.Brendan's Journey is a play about relationships: with friends, with spouses, and with God.
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  • Charles Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol

    $13.70 – $279.00
    This large-cast play with a variable cast, preserves the original story of A Christmas Carol while revealing the story of its author Charles Dickens. Two families, one fictional, one historical, find their way to a brighter New Year for themselves and others around them. God Bless Us Everyone. Great for school, community, LORT, and professional theatres for a new twist on an old tale.
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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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  • EveryKid

    $7.99 – $75.00
    With roots in the morality play, EVERYMAN, this fun participatory play for children by Gillettte Elvgren, depicts the adventures of two contemporary kids, Everygirl and Everyboy as they explore some of the temptations of our American culture. The kids decide they don't need each other and take off separately into the adult worlds of Moneyland, Beautyland, Factland and Success City. Can be performed for and by children.
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  • Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave

    $13.70 – $180.00
    In Kentucky, caves were popular tourist attractions and a source of revenue. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Cave, He got trapped undergound for two weeks  and a frantic media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts.
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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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  • Group S.O.S. Male

    $7.95 – $75.00
    This is the male version of a partner play also titled Group S.O.S. The S.O.S. stands for  Survivors of Sexual Abuse. There is a female version and a script which includes both male and female versions. The separate versions are full-length plays in two acts, running about 95 minutes each. In Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, survivors of sexual abuse confront each other's strengths and weaknesses in the setting of group therapy sessions.   Each character has his own story and his own secrets which lead to a redemptive past.
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  • Humans Remain

    $13.70 – $145.00
    A well-meaning “foreigner” attempts to rescue the White Cliff Kinfolk – a mixed-race society isolated from civilization in the hills of New Jersey for over 200 years. Love. Death. History. Magic. Nature. Belief. All of these are played out on the stage. All but one character are mixed race, mainly African-American. One character is specified as African-American. The others are as diverse as desired. Highly theatrical staging possible.
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