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Full-Length Plays Scripts – New & Modern
Discover over 30 full-length modern plays for High School students, middle schools, adults, community drama groups, and church groups.
Browse contemporary full-length plays on present-day themes, leading-edge original scripts, stage adaptations, topical comedies, dramas and dramedies.
Discover modern full-length farces, satires, historical plays with relevance for today, plays about hot topics of today; racism; school shootings; sexual abuse.
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- $11.00 – $125.00
N
- 100 minutes
- 2 Males, 1 Female
Colleges, Community, Diverse Cast, Drama
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.
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Blood Moon: Or, The Adventure of the Abducted Sorceress
- 90 Minutes
- 7M, 6F, Max 14, Min 7
The year is 1885. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are chatting in the parlor at 221B Baker Street when a strangely attired group of individuals enter, pleading for help. They say they’re from a traveling bazaar of magic and someone has kidnapped their impresario, Madame Vera.
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Ophelia Chooses
- 70 minutes
- 5M, 3F, Max/Min 8
Simple Set
“Ophelia Chooses” begins at Ophelia’s funeral. After perfunctory mourning by the cast of Hamlet, she is resurrected by a feminist from our time, who offers her the chance to live. Feminist Fay instructs Ophelia in the art of standing up for what she wants (and ultimately believes). This is done by revisiting all the scenes from Hamlet in which Ophelia appears.
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Legacy of a Father
- 80 Minutes
- 2-9 VARIABLE
Collection, Doubling Possible, flexible cast, Simple Set
“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.
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Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave
- 120 Minutes
- 3-7M/2-3F - MAX 50+/MIN 7
Colleges, Community, Doubling Possible, Drama, Edgy Play, Highly Theatrical, Large Cast
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.
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Rasputin – the Libertine
- 120 Minutes
- M 12; F 6; M/F 4+ Doubling possible
Dramedy, Colleges, Community, Doubling Roles, Staging Design Potential
From a murky past, Rasputin disrupts Russian society with his charismatic fervor. Despite several assassination attempts, Rasputin survives and thrives. Will nothing rid of us this meddlesome priest?
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Refraction of Light
- 100 minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Drama, Professional, Simple Set
On the day World War II ends, another war begins. Joe Taylor, an African-American veteran decides he wants to marry Nettie French, a childhood sweetheart, and buy the house belonging to Rose Beauchamp. Rose is a white teacher who has befriended both Nettie and Joe and encouraged their friendship and academic aspirations. Rose’s prejudice rears its head and her reluctance to sell her house to Joe sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy all their futures. Harry Rosen, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi Germany, enters their lives and helps them find their way home.
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