3F
Plays with three female characters
Showing 1–16 of 24 results
- $9.95 – $125.00
Tom and Huck–Breakin’ The Law
- 110 Minutes
- M 5-6/ F 2-3/Max 9/Min 7
Colleges, Comedy, Competitions, Doubling Possible, Edgy Play, Friendship, High School, Teens
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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Ophelia Chooses
- 70 minutes
- 5M, 3F, Max/Min 8
Simple Set
“Ophelia Chooses” begins at Ophelia’s funeral. After perfunctory mourning by the cast of Hamlet, she is resurrected by a feminist from our time, who offers her the chance to live. Feminist Fay instructs Ophelia in the art of standing up for what she wants (and ultimately believes). This is done by revisiting all the scenes from Hamlet in which Ophelia appears.
Read More - $8.99 – $80.00
Legacy of a Father
- 80 Minutes
- 2-9 VARIABLE
Collection, Doubling Possible, flexible cast, Simple Set
“Legacy of a Father” is a collection of seven dramatic and comedy one-act plays inspired by real one-on-one, personal interviews conducted by the playwright, Monique Franz. The series addresses a fatherless theme and deals with absentee fathers and the absence of what a father traditionally provides.
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Playroom
- 110 Minutes
- 2F-5F, 2M - 5M
Simple Set
Playroom is a series of comedies created by the author as a way to explore the short play and “one act” format, one setting (and one evening) at a time. An otherwise ordinary family, the characters of Hinton’s Playroom are thrust into extraordinary, supernatural, and preternatural circumstances.
Read More - $8.00 – $35.00
Dinner With Osmina
- 20 Minutes
- 2-3F, 2-4M
Simple Set
“Dinner with Osmina” is the seventh installment in the Playroom series, and it finally features the whole family in one place! The anticipation of a nice family dinner bringing everyone together explodes because of an unexpected guest.
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And Sarah Laughed: A Full-Length Musical Comedy For Three Female Performers
- 90 Minutes
- 3 F
music lead sheets included, Comedy, Highly Theatrrical, Simple Set, Small Cast
And Sarah Laughed is a 3-woman musical comedy glimpse into the world of women as they navigate to find their own place in a man’s world Part comedy, part in-your-face slapstick, And Sarah Laughed is a matrimonial cabaret.
Read More - $6.97 – $30.00
The Yellow Brick Road Trip
- 10 minutes
- 1M / 3F 4 Max/Min
Fable, Fairy Tale, Farce, Community
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.
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Numbers Have Feelings
- 10 minutes
- 1M/4M or F
Fable, Farce, Young Audience, Fantasy, Middle School
What if numbers could feel? Does a number feel diminished when it is subtracted? Originally written for a math-tutoring business open house, this short script is perfect as a classroom or meeting diversion.
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Alice! In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
- 100 minutes
- 3M/3F/28 M or F; Min 12 - Max 27+ doubling possible
Young Audience, Bare Stage, Community, Large Cast
This madcap full-length comedy chases Alice both down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass. Two 45-minute acts of mayhem and upside –down logic provides roles for all students. Mirror the logic and language of today’s global circus. Great opportunity for doubling.
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The Crying Tree
- 110 Minutes
- 4 Males/3Females/Max/Min 7
Dramedy, African American Theme, Colleges, Community, Diverse Cast, Drama
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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I Am The Brother of Dragons
- 50 - 60 minutes
- 3 Males, 2 Females, Max/Min Cast 5
Collection, Simple Set, Touring
A collection of one-act plays for teens
Original plays by Gillette Elvgren. Teen suicide, drug abuse, school drop out, and peer pressure are among the teen challenges that form the substance of the dramas in these 50-minute plays. With simple sets, props, and masks, these teen plays provide a springboard for meaningful discussion.
Read More - $13.95 – $60.00
Shakespeare-On-The-Go: 4 Touring Plays For Young Audiences
Collection, Touring
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.
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Between Trains
- 70 minutes
- 5 Male, 3 Female, Doubling Possible Cast: 7 - 14
Colleges, Community, Edgy Play, Large Cast
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.
Read More - $9.00 – $40.00
Short Shorts for Seniors
- 5 - 60 minutes
- 1+Females 2+Males Max 12 Min 3 (Doubling Possible)
Dramedy, Seniors, Comedy, Community
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.
Read More - $11.00 – $60.00
Friends and Relations
- 30 - 90 minutes
- 3+ Males 3+ Females Max 10 Min 5
Flexible Casting, Simple Set
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:
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– 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 - $11.00 – $95.00
Frankenstein… or The Modern Prometheus
- 120 Minutes
- 7 Males 3 Females Max 13 Min 10 (Doubling Possible)
Drama, Simple Props, Simple Set
A full-length adaptation of Frankenstein. True to the Mary Shelley original, except for a comic servant role, the play depicts the monster Creature with as much horror and sympathy as the original. Excellent for Halloween! Earlier versions of this play by Kathleen McBlair have been performed in school and community theaters since 1980. Audiences love it and scream heartily every time the Creature arrives in the window.
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