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Play Scripts for Children’s Theatre – Plays for Children to Perform

Play scripts for children’s theatre and young actors with easy dialogue and simple sets. Engaging stories that children love to perform. Children’s drama play scripts need to have flexible casting for large or small groups or school drama groups. Scripts for children on this site have short scenes and short dialogues for easy learning. Find funny plays and play scripts with a moral.

Discover class play scriptsscripts for drama classshort scripts for drama class. Comedies, dramas, dramedies with themes to engage, entertain and educate children.

  • A 45-minute introduction to various works of The Bard. Written to be performed by 2 or 4 actors within a single class period. ideal for ages 8 - 12. Includes excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, As You Like It, and one of the sonnets: number 18. Printable PDF available
  • Prince Hedgehog

    $5.00$50.00
    Prince Hedgehog is a dramatic adaptation of a delightful folk tale in which a Prince—in this case born a hedgehog because of his mother’s hasty words—is sent out to further his education. This is a transformation play with a twist.
  • Royal Tea

    $13.70$135.00
    In this one-act mixed up fairy tale comedy musical by Cindy Rock Dlugolecki, the Fairy Godmother is announcing her retirement!  What are they ever to do? At first, Goldilocks, Aurora, Cinderella and other fairy tale heroines from different fairy tales go into a tizzy.  But then, they begin to question the shallowness of their lives. Are they what heroines should be? Why do they always need to be rescued by handsome princes? What kind of life is that? It's time for change!!!  A fairy-tale for our times with a new message for young girls and women.
  • 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.
  • Sleeping Beauty

    $13.70$175.00
    Once upon a time…in an enchanted kingdom, all gathered to celebrate the birth of the royal princess. Mickey Coburn's adaptation brings wicked Godmothers, good Godmothers, magicians, kings, clowns - all fantastically intertwined into a delightful tale luxuriating in sorcery, processions, and whimsical escapades! Easy and economical to stage.
  • Snow White

    $13.70$300.00
    Snow White, often considered a Grimm Fairytale, actually came from books by the French Huguenot Charles Perrault, the creator of Mother Goose. This re-creation of the story is very modern in its dialogue and conception of the characters. Snow White is saucy and flippant, and the play has a sense of humor, timeless charm and a touch of “camp” that adults, as well as children, enjoy.
  • 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.
  • The Lovely Red Flower

    $5.00$50.00
    A one-act children’s morality play based on a Malaysian folk tale. A group of unruly and rowdy forest characters give a group of greedy monkeys their comeuppance.  Set in a hot tropical jungle, this is a comic tale around the relative values of sloth and industry. Can be performed for and/or by children. Great for classroom readings.
  • The Moral of the Story

    $11.97$60.00
    Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare meets an African Ibo legend .  This one-act comedy play script for kids reveals what inquiring minds have always wanted to know - the inside scoop behind Aesop's most famous Fable and why tortoises have cracked, lumpy shells.
  • The Selfish Giant

    $13.70$145.00
    A full-length fantasy play for five characters, based on Oscar Wilde's Story The Selfish Giant.  This adventure tells the enchanting story of a group of city kids who discover a beautiful house and garden in the middle of their cement and broken glass environment. But they are chased off by the selfish giant, Gorgon, who places a 'No Trespassing' sign on the gate.  Because of his selfishness, the elements of Frost, Snow, and Hail invade his garden and transform it into a place where Spring is banished.
  • The Snow Queen

    $13.70$180.00
    This 60-minute Christmas play for the whole family is adapted by Gillette Elvgren from "The Snow Queen" story by Hans Christian Anderson. Follow the adventures of the young girl Gerda as she strives to free her best friend Kay from the icy grip of the Snow Queen. A modern version with optional audience participation, for Children's Theatre or students to perform for family audiences.
  • The Tempest for Youth

    $13.70$145.00
    A 45-minute appealing comedy adaptation of The Tempest to be relished. It has all the exciting elements: of the original play: shipwrecks, a love story, an evil plot, and the fun exploits of the spirits Ariel and her adversary, the rebellious fish-man, Caliban.   The flexible cast roles ensures a part for everyone. A must-see for young audiences.
  • 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.

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