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.

Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament

$13.97 – $55.00

These voices from the Old Testament are perfect for Christian solo drama performances. Also with voices of contemporary men of faith, struggling or affirming their beliefs bring modern issues to life. Perfect for inclusion in virtual church services and programs, and also as audition pieces. For performance rights for individual monologues, please contact us.

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Monsters

$11.97 – $90.00

Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas.

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Mystery of the Pirates Cave

$13.97 – $150.00

A cave in the Caribbean is the repository for the treasure of the honourable privateer, Captain Jedidiah York who is ready to retire to a normal life. On their latest voyage, a portrait of a young lady is among the spoils in the captured treasure and York becomes smitten.

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N

$13.70 – $125.00

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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Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home

$11.97 – $50.00

This one-act, two character play opens during the pre-dawn hours of November 5, 1831. It is the day that Nat Turner, leader of a bloody slave rebellion, will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death. In the predawn hours before the trial a mysterious woman enters to purify the courtroom. Seven days later she is there by the hanging tree when Turner is executed and thrown into the darkness of death - where he fears he has been eternally abandoned.

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Nat’s Last Struggle

$11.97 – $45.00

A one-man play by P. A. Wray. Nat Turner confronts his conscience in the afterlife. Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an American slave who brought about the only direct, continuous slave rebellion (August 1831) in U. S. history. Some regard him as a monster, others as a hero in search of freedom. Which was he? Great for high school, college, community theater, and readers theater.

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Not Your Fairy Godmother

$9.97 – $50.00

A comedy that actually DEFENDS insurance companies because everyone just assumes that insurance companies have an unlimited amount of money to hand out.

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Numbers Have Feelings

$9.97 – $50.00

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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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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Oil Pandango

$8.00 – $35.00

“Oil Pandango” is the fifth installment in the Playroom series, and it’s set in the garage. A lot of teens take over the garage with dreams of starting a band, but Marla isn’t a lot of teens.

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Oliver Twist

$13.70 – $170.00

Oliver Twist Stage Script for Schools, Colleges and Communities
A mischevious comedy adaptation of Oliver Twist. Funny and fierce, with flexible cast, this play can be performed anywhere from the classroom to the professional stage. True to Charles Dickens’ classic novel - entertaining, touching, and comically socially relevant. Free Sample to read.

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Ophelia Chooses

$13.97 – $125.00

"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.

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Ophelia Lives!

$13.70 – $145.00

This one-act play for teens deals honestly and openly with depression and suicidal impulses among teens. Set backstage in a high school theater, a high school drama class is rehearsing Hamlet and personal issues--cutting, eating disorders and low self-esteem--that are seldom discussed begin to emerge after the teacher discovers a suicide note. Ideal for middle school and high school students. Easy to tour with a simple set. PDF available.

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Oregon Fever

$11.97 – $55.00

In this one-act period drama Joshua Blanchard is preparing to leave Kansas to head west on the Oregon Trail in l835. On this climactic day, his youngest son dies, his daughter decides to marry and stay at home, and he has an important confrontation with his wife. Performs well for middle school, high school, community theater. Great for Reader's Theater, American history or social studies class.

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Original Relocation

$9.97 – $50.00

Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.

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Out Out

$8.00 – $35.00

“Out, Out” is the fourth installment in the Playroom series, and it may be set in the master bedroom. It seems like an ordinary end to an ordinary day when Rich and Carol retire for the night--until

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