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Discover a host of modern comedy play scripts, short comedy scripts, one-act comedies, full-length comedies, comedy sketches for middle schools. high schools. college students, church groups and seniors.

There are funny drama scripts for school plays that teachers and students love, are easy to stage with minimal sets and props and have easy plots to follow. Discover comedy plays for Christmas, comedies for seniors, comedic plays for community drama groups. Find tried and tested comedic scripts suitable for cast sizes from one to twenty-one.

We have a large selection of the best comedy stage plays for community theatre

  • RTFM

    $8.00$35.00
    A lighter & comedic version of "Space Oddity" by David Bowie, where Major Tom is not as prepared as he should be because he doesn't Read The Freakin' Manual (RTFM), as Ground Control nags him to do.
  • 4 skilfully adapted plays for young audiences: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, A Midnight Summer's Dream, and Macbeth. Plays are each around 45 to 50 minutes, are fast-paced, engaging, and make the language more accessible to young audiences, while including both Shakespeare’s original language and theatrical devices. As exciting participatory theater they appeal to elementary school students. With the participatory elements removed, each play's frame story is producible as a play for teens or for teen drama groups to perform for a younger audience.
  • 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.
  • A collection of six 10-minute satires - plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed.
  • Talk the Night

    $8.00$35.00
    Together, Drake and his grandfather, the dynamic vocal duo, broadcast call-in segments about aliens, werewolves, and all things crypto-zoological, but this particular show is about “time”: lost time, time outs, moments that feel like years,
  • Talk: The Musical

    $9.95$75.00
    In this musical play about the environment, there are plenty of roles for school and community drama groups  A large-cast one-act musical for children and community audiences featuring talking and singing stones, trees, and yams, and animals that help the natural world blossom and bloom once a year. Things are going wrong in this magical village, and trees, flowers, and animals tell it in story and song.  Full of lively songs like "We Are Here for the Halibut," these characters sing and dance their way into our hearts. Music Lead Sheets available.
  • 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.
  • The Art of the Duel

    $9.97$50.00
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Straight Dope

    $9.97$50.00
    Jeff, a college student who, in his words, "has honorable intentions, a good future, and works out 3 times a week" asks his friend Bob for advice on women after he learns that Veronica can't stomach him. He wonders if he's asked the right person when he discovers that Bob doesn't even know how Marvin Gaye died. Alicia puts it all into perspective.
  • The Trunk

    $9.97$50.00
    A man is about to board a mysterious train when he is stopped because of the size of his luggage. What is in his trunk that he is so reluctant to part with? And where is the train going? In this 15-minute play, L. Elizabeth Powers bears witness to the fact that it's never too late to take a different path.
  • A very different Dorothy lands in Oz to find some romantic interest from one of the Munchkins and a conflict over language and meaning from the Good Witch.
  • As Miranda prepares to go to sleep, she recounts the events of her day—and her life—through a series of imagined and surreal interactions with her parents and psychiatrist.
  • An award-winning romantic comedy that imagines Tom and Huck as gay sixteen-year-olds, trapped in the 1850’s in St. Petersburg, Missouri. The adventures will be familiar, yet comically twisted, full of teenage angst, and discovery of one's sexuality and uniqueness.

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