Plays For Seniors Audiences

A selection of comedy plays for seniors to be performed for elderly. These engaging plays are great entertainment for Senior Theater shows for retirement housing, elder care facilities and assisted living facilities.

There are Funny Plays for the Elderly, Short Plays with easy dialogue, Short Shorts, Skits and One-Acts with plenty of character roles for older people. The plays are suitable for production by Professional theaters, touring theatre companies, amateur dramatic groups, and ambitious senior acting groups.

Ten After Ten: Ten 10-Minute Comedies

$13.70 – $110.00

In Ten After Ten, Jack J. Berry uses unique settings to highlight current problems and issues. These short comedies can be performed as a single evening or used separately as part of a larger presentation to underscore a point. Excellent for classroom, church, or senior facility.

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The Chimes

$13.70 – $200.00

Give Scrooge a break for the winter holiday production! THE CHIMES is a full-length comedy and large-cast adaptation of another Dickens' classic Christmas/New Years tale. Toby Veck, an impoverished London porter wants to bless his daughter's marriage by New Year's Day. Alas, he doesn't have even a shilling in his pocket. Surely, the wealthy families he carries packages for will find enough work for him to do before the New Year comes and he must break a promise made on his late wife's deathbed. This Dickens' comedy is a great Christmas change-of-pace for schools, communities, and regional theaters.

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The Concise Christmas Carol

$9.00 – $45.00

A 50-minute condensed monologue adapted from Charles Dickens' Scrooge. How the ghosts who haunt him, eventually transform a lonely, stingy, bitter old man into a generous, infectiously cheerful humanitarian. D.D. Delaney, a professional actor, playwright, journalist, and poet has adapted the familiar holiday classic for the stage. Written as a monologue, it can also be performed by 4 actors. Ideal for Christmas celebrations, house performances, and readers theater. Downloadable PDF available.

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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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The Unmasking of Yetta Breen

$13.70 – $155.00

A full-length touching and funny 'dramedy' by Mickey Coburn, about a newly widowed woman and her changing relationships with her grown children. Yetta's family expect her to remain 'mama': dependent and indecisive but Yetta has ideas of her own. After years of marriage, she wants to live for herself. But when the suitors begin to appear!!!! Will Yetta be able to emancipate herself from the role of "Jewish Mother"? Even if her new beau is the "likker" salesman? Great for community and regional theaters. Downloadable PDF available.

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The Yellow Brick Road Trip

$9.97 – $50.00

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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