High School
Plays for High School Theatre Students to Perform
A large selection of more than 60 plays for High School Theatre that include comedies, dramas, short plays, full-length plays and farces. All written to draw teen students into engaging stories they will enjoy acting in and performing for the school show. Discover short plays for high school, comedy plays, dramas, dramedies, farces, plays with contemporary issues, scripts with historical themes.
Showing the single result
- $11.00 – $125.00
N
- 100 minutes
- 2 Males, 1 Female
Colleges, Community, Diverse Cast, Drama
Adrienne Earle Pender’s “N” 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” to be screened in 2020. O’Neill and Gilpin fight from rehearsal to Broadway run and, eventually, to the London tour. To Eugene O’Neill, a word is just a word. For Charles Gilpin, those six letters have the power to unravel everything that he has ever worked for. At stake for O’Neill? His artistic vision. For Gilpin? His entire career and family.
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