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Cultural Understanding
Play Scripts about Cultural Understanding
Find scripts about multicultural, cross-cultural, & intercultural themes. Discover plays for theatre for cultural & social awareness. Understanding important aspects of culture and diversity in building communities. Understanding the beliefs, behaviors and values of another culture is becoming more important around the world. Play scripts about diversity and cultural understanding can help with social cohesion.
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A Touch of Frost
$11.97 – $49.95Price range: $11.97 through $49.95Three 20-minute comedies in one act. Wilford, from New York, has just bought and moved to a new homestead in Vermont, but he realizes that his new neighbors may not be from this planet! Mila, her son Klig, and husband Kulerie Klee, live on a farm next to Wilford’s and their adjoining farms are separated only by a stone wall which is beginning to fall apart. What to do? Knock it down? Build it back? – and what are they walling in and walling out? Can be performed by high school, college, university students or groups. -
AND SARAH LAUGHED: A Musical Comedy in One Act for A Solo Female Performer
$13.70 – $155.00Price range: $13.70 through $155.00In 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. -
Angel Band
$13.70 – $265.00Price range: $13.70 through $265.00Leaders of the snake-handling Signs Following Church in the hills of Appalachia are threatened by the snakes they handle to prove their Godliness and by the law enforcement and child welfare agencies of the surrounding community. They live side-by-side with the Blue People, a society of outcasts whose skin is marked by a blue skin tone. Into the mix comes Jay, a shy, possibly autistic, journalist intent on uncovering the secret world of these hidden cultures. -
Humans Remain
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00A well-meaning “foreigner” attempts to rescue the White Cliff Kinfolk – a mixed-race society isolated from civilization in the hills of New Jersey for over 200 years. Love. Death. History. Magic. Nature. Belief. All of these are played out on the stage. All but one character are mixed race, mainly African-American. One character is specified as African-American. The others are as diverse as desired. Highly theatrical staging possible. -
Library Wars
$13.70 – $135.00Price range: $13.70 through $135.00School and public libraries, bastions of free access to information, are threatened. “Library Wars” begins with an ordinary setting: a local library board meeting. Everything’s routine until someone arrives with what might be a weapon, and new members propose banning books with race-oriented, gay, and transsexual themes and characters. -
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$13.70 – $125.00Price range: $13.70 through $125.00Adrienne 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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People R Ready
$11.95 – $150.00Price range: $11.95 through $150.00College students return to class after the pandemic to find love with a hint of betrayal that could end Alex and Savannah for good. Foreign exchange students find new friends at the drama club's spring musical audition. Can Toni lead this group through personal inhibitions and a lack of self-esteem with the magic of music? Working with Keith, Toni helps him learn to dance in his wheelchair igniting a mutual passion. The “People R Ready”—are YOU!!! -
River Country
$13.70 – $175.00Price range: $13.70 through $175.00A lilting poem for the stage, follows the passionate meeting of a man and woman who share neither language nor culture, yet fall in love. Through the rhythmic blending of language and song, the play combines poetry and both traditional and original melodies to illuminate this romantic union that ultimately overcomes geography and tradition. -
The Crying Tree
$13.70 – $125.00Price range: $13.70 through $125.00A stunning drama with wonderful comic scenes, which received a special mention in the 2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. The story: in 2018, a black Congressman is caught up in a Trump impeachment battle and the alt right. Two hundred years earlier at the same plantation home, a slave is deciding whether to escape. Two parallel stories show how much has and hasn't changed about race and politics in America. -
The Hidden Stream
$13.70 – $16.97Price range: $13.70 through $16.97A Poetry Collection For Spoken Word Theater. A moving, insightful autobiography combining poetry and reflection reveals the emerging life and art of a poet. Can be used selectively to construct short one-act plays. The poems are superb for spoken word theater, solo acting scripts, one-person shows, monologue plays scripts. See the script extract. -
Tom and Huck–Breakin’ The Law
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00An award-winning romantic comedy that imagines Tom and Huck as gay sixteen-year-olds, trapped in the 1850’s in St. Petersburg, Missouri. The adventures will be familiar, yet comically twisted, full of teenage angst, and discovery of one's sexuality and uniqueness.
