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Edgy Plays for Schools, High School & College Theatre

Edgy Plays for high school and other schools who need plays that deal with strange, provocative or controversial issues, cautionary tales, inventive dialogue, provocative topics.  Topics include school shootings, growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, teen suicide, drugs abuse, sexual abuse, black history, slavery, politics, political farce, demons, the occult, the irreverent., the weirdly wonderful. Full of surprises these plays often challenge actors, directors, set designers with some aspect that’s way out of the ordinary.  PLays with an edge will excite students and audiences alike.

  • A man is lied to when he volunteers for a psychological experiment on the role of pain in learning. His experience leaves him scarred. Twenty years later, he confronts the psychologist who conducted the experiment. To inflict revenge? T0 get an apology? Does he even know why? Do we?
  • Angel Band

    $13.70$265.00
    Leaders 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.
  • Broken Dolls

    $13.70$85.00
    Broken Dolls tells the fictional stories of women- both international and domestic- who have been trafficked for sex work, domestic labor, hotel work, and agricultural work. Taking place in a waiting room at a social service facility, the play revolves around five female survivors of human trafficking who cross paths. Entrapped and isolated, five women come together to weave their narratives in a mix of monologue and dialogue, merging reality and memories of coping and longing.
  • Dinner With Osmina

    $8.00$35.00
    “Dinner with Osmina” is the seventh installment in the Playroom series, and it finally features the whole family in one place! The anticipation of a nice family dinner bringing everyone together explodes because of an unexpected guest.
  • Drowning Ophelia

    $13.70$95.00
    The set of this one-act comedy for four actors is Jane's bathtub. She finds it inhabited by a strange, Shakespearean woman whose enigmatic commentary intrudes on Jane's thoughts and her new romantic relationship. This dark comedy is about the long-term consequences of childhood abuse and a love letter to those who have suffered. There is always hope.
  • In Kentucky, caves were popular tourist attractions and a source of revenue. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Cave, He got trapped undergound for two weeks  and a frantic media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts.
  • In GROUP S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, the S.O.S stands for Survivors Of Sexual abuse.  In two separate full-length plays, male or female survivors both confront and comfort one another as they begin their processes of healing. Appropriate for a teen or adult audience, previous productions of these plays have led to audience members seeking help as they begin to recognize themselves among the characters. Run time is about 95 minutes.
  • Humans Remain

    $13.70$145.00
    A 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.
  • Inside and Out

    $9.97$50.00
    This 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.
  • 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.
  • A collection of six 10-minute satires - plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed.
  • An 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.

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