Community
Community Theater Plays to Perform
Discover good plays for community theater, play scripts for community drama groups and amateur dramatic groups to perform. Find good scripts for community theatre plays with a flexible cast, Most scripts with a large cast of actors have flexible casting. There are scripts with small casts, plays with simple easy staging, multi-racial casts, and diverse roles.
Community drama and amateur drama groups often need play scripts for small groups with a broad range of roles for casts of different ages, races and acting abilities. Comedy scripts for community theater are most popular. Community drama groups often prefer to build an evening of theater from several short plays to give all the group members a chance to perform on stage.
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- $11.00 – $125.00
N
- 100 minutes
- 2 Males, 1 Female
Colleges, Community, Diverse Cast, Drama
Adrienne Earle Pender gives us the influential and momentous “N” play, that dramatizes the struggle between playwright Eugene O’Neill and actor Charles Sidney Gilpin over the inclusion of the “N” word in the script for O’Neill’s first box office hit, The Emperor Jones. in 1920. The play was turned into a film “The Black Emperor of Broadway” , screened in 2020 to great acclaim.
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Employee of the Month
- 10 minutes
- 1F3M
Simple Set
Randy works at a large department store but is very creative in generating sales. Just when he thinks that he’ll win “Employee of the Month” for the 2nd time in a row (and impress Mary in the process), he learns that his winning would not fit with the company goals.
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A Dark Day for Hinkley, J.
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
Simple Set
John Hinkley Jr. (attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan) must use his newly-learned coping skills to deal with the news that the “love of his life”, Jodie Foster, is not “playing on the same team” that he’d always assumed she was.
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Anecdotal Evidence
- 10 minutes
- 3M 0F
Simple Set
A comedic look at how, as a society, we have become so dependent on double-blind studies that we can no longer make simple decisions. A quick journey thru history!
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A Dish Best Served Cold – A Revenge Fantasy in 10 Minutes
- 10 minutes
- 2M; Max/Min 2
Auditions, Classroom Use, Mental Health Issues, 2-Character, Colleges, Competitions, Highly Theatrrical
A man is lied to when he volunteers for a psychological experiment on the role of pain in learning. His experience leaves him scarred. Twenty years later, he confronts the psychologist who conducted the experiment. To inflict revenge? T0 get an apology? Does he even know why? Do we?
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AND SARAH LAUGHED: A Musical Comedy in One Act for A Solo Female Performer
- 60 Minutes
- 1 F
Farce, Monologue, music lead sheets included, Comedy, Participatory
In And Sarah Laughed: A Musical Comedy in One Act for A Solo Female Performance, a single actress emceeing a wedding reception delivers a comic glimpse into the world of women as they navigate to find their own place in a man’s world.
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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.
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This’ll Only Take a Second
- 30-45 minutes
- 1 F
Classroom Use, Competitions, Depression, Simple Set
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.
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ABC’s of Memory
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 50 M or F
Auditions, Monologue, spoken word, Spoken Word Theatre, Variable Length, Reader's Theater
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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