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Play Scripts About Family Relationships
Find Dramas and Comedies about family issues. See below, plays that explore the emotional connections between parents and children, between brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandchildren, husbands and wives. There is love, hate, jealousy, betrayal and forgiveness.
In different societies and cultures, expectations of the shape of family relationships differ greatly: fathers and sons, fathers and daughters. mothers and sons, mothers and daughters. Relationships between step-mothers and their step-children have traditionally been unfairly portrayed as fraught with difficulty and used as a dramatic device for comic or dramatic effect.
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A Slippery Slope
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A middle-school teacher is in a war zone between two students when both their reports turn out to be about the Layson Albatross. Does she side with Davy whose report says that Layson couples raising their chicks are sometimes both female? Or does she come to Beth's defense when Beth wants to silence Davy's report as "fake news."
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ABC’s of Memory
$14.70 – $75.00Price range: $14.70 through $75.00Lianne'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. -
All Dressed Up
$11.97 – $55.00Price range: $11.97 through $55.00A one-act high school comedy / drama, Melissa has been taught what she is "supposed to" learn as a young woman: to be dependent, to bat her eyelashes, never to win a game against a boy. How well does this education help her when she has to make important decisions about sexual activity. Great for teen drama groups and touring. PDF download available. -
An Evening With Joyce’s Women
$9.95 – $90.00Price range: $9.95 through $90.00A trilogy of one-act plays, The Boarding House, Eveline, and The Dead
Based on Dubliners by James Joyce; adapted for the stage to allow us to enter the lives of three Dublin women. Dublin society of the first decade of the 20th Century comes to life through the frustrations, fantasies, and follies of Irish women who are also victims and victimizers of their mates. -
And Sarah Laughed: A Full-Length Musical Comedy For Three Female Performers
$13.70 – $90.00Price range: $13.70 through $90.00And 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. -
Candy and Toys
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A ten-page short play from a series of plays within a collection - Legacy of a Father - by playwright, Monique Franz. The script addresses the emotional toll on women raised without the love and affection of a father. Based on a real-life interview, the story highlights the negative impact of a culture that values sons over daughters, men over women. -
Charles Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol
$13.70 – $279.00Price range: $13.70 through $279.00This large-cast play with a variable cast, preserves the original story of A Christmas Carol while revealing the story of its author Charles Dickens. Two families, one fictional, one historical, find their way to a brighter New Year for themselves and others around them. God Bless Us Everyone. Great for school, community, LORT, and professional theatres for a new twist on an old tale. -
Daddy’s Silhouette
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00From her earliest memory, Quiana, an African American woman in her twenties, is desperate for the love of an absentee father, which carries into her adulthood. Her fear of abandonment bleeds into her marriage to Tommy, an easy-going seaman, who demonstrates saint-like patience with his wife’s chronic daddy issues. -
Far from the Tree
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A father should be proud to witness his ambitious son strive to fulfill his career goals, except if the father is a narcissistic dad whose failures come to light by his son’s successes. In "Far from the Tree", a comedy short play within "Legacy of a Father" series by playwright Monique Franz, the main character has to overcome his father’s tactics of sabotage to stay focused on his future. -
Inside and Out
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00This 10-minute poetic play dramatizes a mother's attempt to reach inside the autistic mind of her young son. Characters include Jonah, the boy, his mother, Jonah's mind. The play is a great change of pace in an evening of short plays and as an introduction to discussion groups and classes in social work and mental health settings. -
Legacy of a Father
$14.70 – $110.00Price range: $14.70 through $110.00"Legacy of a Father" is a collection of seven dramatic and comedy one-act plays inspired by real one-on-one, personal interviews conducted by the playwright, Monique Franz. The series addresses a fatherless theme and deals with absentee fathers and the absence of what a father traditionally provides. -
N
$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. -
Oil Pandango
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“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. -
Papito
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom. -
Playroom
$13.70 – $110.00Price range: $13.70 through $110.00Playroom is a series of comedies created by the author as a way to explore the short play and "one act" format, one setting (and one evening) at a time. An otherwise ordinary family, the characters of Hinton’s Playroom are thrust into extraordinary, supernatural, and preternatural circumstances.
