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Play Scripts About Aging – Getting Old

Looking for a play about old people? With elderly characters? Need plays with roles for elderly and mature actors? View a selection of comedy plays & drama scripts where aging is an issue that changes relationships between different generations, or elderly parents and their children.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Short Shorts for Seniors

    $9.00 – $40.00
    French fries are outlawed? Animals invade a retirement community? Did we hear polka music? This collection of five short plays for seniors is funny and touching at the same time. These plays by prize-winning playwright and award-winning actress Ludmilla Bollow, illustrate the drama that touches our everyday lives.
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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 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 Dead

    $7.95 – $75.00

    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 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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