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Scripts for  Forensics Competitions and  Competitive Speech Events

Scripts for

  • Humorous Interpretation,
  • Dramatic Interpretation
  • Duo Interpretation
  • Theatrical Duets
  • Creative Ideas for Speech and Forensic materials
  • Poetry Reading competitions

Havescripts has scores of plays to choose from and many are listed below. And you can also search on this  FIND A PLAY, page. You can search for a play that meets all of your needs. Here below are a few of our top plays to get you started.

  • A Touch of Frost

    $11.97$49.95
    Three 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.
  • ABC’s of Memory

    $14.70$75.00
    Lianne'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.
  • Accident

    $11.70$75.00
    Two women, one white and one black, meet as a result of an accident involving one of their sons. In this pre-trial. they each make unexpected discoveries that reveal the role that race and gender play in our society.
  • Alice in Wonderland

    $13.70$145.00
    A delightful, one-act play script adapted from the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Staying true to the original, this adaptation for the stage brings all the characters of the original Wonderland to life. Great for classrooms with a diverse student body, for children's theater, competitions and for reader's theater.
  • A 3-character poem-play that reveals the first ten years of the life of an abused child struggling on the cusp of mental illness and successfully hiding it from his dysfunctional family.
  • Going to the Dogs

    $6.97$17.99
    In this 10-Minute original farce, a free-thinking retired woman, Sylvia, discovers that her deceased husband has been reincarnated as her dog. A surreal and hilarious Fantasy/Comedy by Pamela Steadman. Acting script.
  • collection of one-act plays for teens

    Original plays by Gillette Elvgren.  Teen suicide, drug abuse, school drop out, and peer pressure are among the teen challenges that form the substance of the dramas in these 50-minute plays. With simple sets, props, and masks, these teen plays provide a springboard for meaningful discussion.
  • 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.
  • Library Wars

    $13.70$135.00
    School 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.
  • Looking Glass Elegy

    $13.97$78.00
    Structured as a nonlinear narrative, a film location scout named George takes us on a trip through his past, reflecting on his adventures in the film business as well as past relationships, particularly with a dancer who he came to love and eventually lost. His attempt to come to terms with that loss drives the action of the story.
  • These voices from the Old Testament are perfect for Christian solo drama performances. Also with voices of contemporary men of faith, struggling or affirming their beliefs bring modern issues to life. Perfect for inclusion in virtual church services and programs, and also as audition pieces. For performance rights for individual monologues, please contact us.
  • Monsters

    $11.97$90.00
    Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas.
  • 4 skilfully adapted plays for young audiences: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, A Midnight Summer's Dream, and Macbeth. Plays are each around 45 to 50 minutes, are fast-paced, engaging, and make the language more accessible to young audiences, while including both Shakespeare’s original language and theatrical devices. As exciting participatory theater they appeal to elementary school students. With the participatory elements removed, each play's frame story is producible as a play for teens or for teen drama groups to perform for a younger audience.
  • 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.
  • This collection of over 50 poems has all of Robert P. Arthur's skill and lovely, rhythmical language, but also a sense of loss of both life and love, the former viewed with both curiosity and indifference, the latter producing some of the author’s most moving love poems. The sea is. however, ever-present, just like in his other works.
  • The Don

    $15.97$89.87
    41 Plays-On-A-Page convey slices of sometimes fantastical life. Sometimes biting social commentary, sometimes whimsical asides. These short dramas and comedies leave the audience guessing about their own lives and the world around them. William Heyen, National Book Award Finalist and major American poet, has turned his pen to the stage, with stellar results.

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