FREE CLASSROOM SCENES FOR TEENS - Scenes for drama class
Below are scenes from published plays and short scenes that have been used in play festivals. They are free for classroom use and forensic competitions only (sorry but not to be used in one-act festivals or student one-acts even if no admission is charged). Otherwise, print, play and enjoy!
Please contact me if you use the scenes for class - it's a smile in my day (your school, city and state). If a publisher is cited, you must go through the publisher for the rights to use these scenes if you have any audience.
FREE SCENES FOR TEENS
FOR TWO
Cast: 2 - Both roles can be male or female
NEW! 37 Origami Bees: drama; Alex is on a mission to save the farm using origami bees. Lee is not so sure. Written as part of the Playwrights Thriving Title Project. 5 minutes.
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Colorado: Bill Cody's Grave; comedy; Who's really buried in Bill Cody's Grave? Inquiring minds want to know. From the United Plays of America anthology.
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Texas - Invasion of the Tumbleweeds; comedy, pseudo-horror. The tumbleweeds are coming.... from THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology
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Oregon - Fa La La La Llama - comedy, fantasy - looking at climate change from a llama's point of view. From THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology
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Pennsylvania - Scrapple - comedy - What is scrapple anyway? A Pennsylvania Dutch specialty and ... other things. From THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology
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We Interrupt this Program - Drama; Gun Control
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North Dakota - The Enchanted Highway; 4 minute serio-comic discussion of art along the highway.. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Montana - Where the Buffalo Roam; comedy; it turns out that the buffalo in Yellowstone Park are not fond of human tourists. Yes, the characters are buffalo. From THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Delaware - Protect Our Chickens; 5-minute comedy about Delaware and chickens. From THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Quarantined with Human - two minute comedy; Dogs are apparently happy with their humans sheltering in place. But not every cat is.
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Cast 2 - 1 male, 1 female
NEW! At the Fair - serio-comic - Virginia and Daniel are siblings and Daniel has brought her to the State Fair. Virginia is in a wheelchair paralyzed during the polio epidemic. From the full-length At the Fair.
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NEW! At the Fair - serio-comic - Ozzie and Rosie are siblings. Ozzie has run away from the foster home he lived in with Rosie and is a con-artist - selling "dreams." Rosie is in a new foster care. From the full-length At the Fair.
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NEW! Louisa and Her Little Women - serio-comic; Thoreau advises Louisa on her writing.
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New! Curled Geese - comedy; a hard-of-hearing genie and his stressed-out mistress.
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And the Universe Didn't Blink - drama, fantasy, science; a scene where Miranda (age 15) tries to see if the laws of physics will allow her to see her father one more time. From the full length And the Universe Didn't Blink.
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Eleanor Rigby - serio-comic; 2 lonely teens in their high school cafeteria.
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Missouri - Redbird - Romantic Comedy; a blind date where a couple discovers they have nothing in common. Does it matter? From THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Frosty the Rogue Man - serio-comic; a cat-calling snowman is transformed.
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Indiana - All You Need is Love - romantic comedy; Is this really a proposal? From The United Plays of America anthology.
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Alaska - Moose Lips - Daisy's on a mission and it involves moose lips. Comedy. Note: There are kisses at the end. Or not. You decide. From The United Plays of America anthology.
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Idaho - Craters of the Moon; dark comedy; one could commit murder in this state park. But only if one was a murderer. From The United Plays of America anthology.
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Minnesota - A Paper Forest - serio-comic; a tale of climate change on the shores of Lake Superior. From THE UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Almost Mary - Bio of Mary Anning; serio-comic; Mary Anning (age 12) receives 2 books From Henry de la Beche (age 15); scene from full length play ALMOST MARY. Read published script at YouthPLAYS.
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Soundscapes - a teen play about synesthesia; serio-comic; Iris and Tony are 13-14. Scene from full-length play SOUNDSCAPES. Read published script at Stage Partners.
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Alabama: The Proposal; comedy; a monkey monument and a proposal.
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New York - Water Lilies; a perspective on Monet's Water Lilies; serio-comic; 5 minutes
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Founding Daughters; A play about four unsung, young heroines from the Revolutionary War. Read entire published script at Stage Partners.
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My Brother's Gift - Drama - A brother and sister during the Holocaust. (True Story) Read full script at Stage Partners.
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Under a Midsummer Moon - Drama (read publisher's script - Dramatic Publishing) Viet Nam, the Moon landing and magic
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Antigone in Munich - The Sophie Scholl Story - Nazi Germany resistance. Drama (from a full length; read script and obtain rights from Stage Partners.)
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Kafka and the Doll - fantasy (from full length; read script from my Youth Plays Page) a fantasy of Franz Kafka writing letters from a doll; scene with Lisette (a doll) and a singing Porpoise from full length Kafka and the Doll.
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Maine - serio-comic - a 2-minute ditty starring the Northern Lights. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Cast: 2 females
NEW! At the Fair - serio-comic; Rosie has taken Virginia for a ride away from her caretakers at the State Fair.
Virginia is in a wheelchair. From the full length At the Fair.
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13 Seconds with Lin-Manuel Miranda - comedy; what if you met your favorite celebrity in an elevator?
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Yours until Niagara Falls - Lina and Izzy meet. A play about friendship told through letters. Serio-comic. The characters are ten but should be played by performers in their teens. From full length Yours Until Niagara Falls.
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Yours Until Niagara Falls - Izzy and Lina tell each other their secretest secrets. Serio-comic. From full length Yours Until Niagara Falls.
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Yours until Niagara Falls - Izzy and Lina go to Junior High; the characters are 12-13 and should be played by older teens. From full length Yours Until Niagara Falls.
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Yours Until Niagara Falls - Izzy and Lina in high school - their first real fight. Drama. From full length Yours Until Niagara Falls.
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Hiking - drama; about self-harm, trying to be perfect and a chance meeting that may change all of that
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Kansas - serio-comic; one sister wants to go to Oz - for real. From The United Plays of America anthology.
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West Virginia - Smothering Ramps - comedy - a lesson in making ramps tasty - the southern way. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Iowa - Crashing Tulips; LGBT; a tulip festival and love and maybe more
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Almost Mary - Mary Anning (age 12) teaches Philippa (age 15) about fossil hunting; scene from full length Almost Mary. Read play at YouthPLAYS.
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South Dakota - The Sunflower Field - Serio-comic; two sisters plan on scattering their mother's ashes in a sunflower field. They have different memories of their mother. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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7 Weeks, 3 Days - drama; a close friend of Mari visits. Mari is sick. The visit is awkward. They are awkward. It's all awkward.
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Dear Anne from Nina - drama; pen pal correspondence between Anne Frank and Nina in Iowa. Read script and/or obtain rights at Stage Partners.
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Dear Anne from Nina - drama; scene between Anne Frank and Margot Frank. Read script and/or obtain rights at Stage Partners.
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Just in Case Texts - serio-comic; school shootings; two young teens
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By Candlelight - drama - full length play; teens and healing after 9/11. From fulel length BY CANDLELIGHT (obtain rights and/or read publisher's script - Playscripts)
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Shakespeare Unbound - comedy; Shakespeare mash-up. (obtain rights or read publisher's script - Dramatic Publishing)
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Overscheduled - comedy - a 3-minute ditty
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It's Special - drama - a two minute play; A mother has a surprise for her teen daughter after some back-to-school shopping
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2 males
Be Brave and Don't Look Back - drama - A celebration of a police officer's life who was killed in the Boulder grocery store shooting. The characters are middle-aged but the material is appropriate and accessible for high school and university students. Part of Code Red Playwrights.
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Oklahoma - comedy - What's in a Name? What do you do when your name is Peter Babbit and you're from Rabbit Cove, Oklahoma? When do you own up to your name?
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Nebraska: Child of the Corn - comedy , fantasy - Xan's a corn farmer. Dan's fears he is turning into an ear of corn. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Under a Midsummer Moon - drama from full length play (obtain rights and/or read publisher's script - Dramatic Publishing)
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La Bella Cinderella - from full length comedy for youth based on the Italian Cinderella (obtain rights and/or read publisher's script - YouthPLAYS)
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1 male, 1 either male or female
The Fisherman and His Wife - full-length, fairytale comedy for young audiences (obtain rights and/or read publisher's script - Playscripts)
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1 female, 1 either male or female
Kentucky - comedy - Burgoo is a traditional food in Kentucky. What makes it authentic? The eye of newt? From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Wisconsin - Why a Duck? - comedy, fantasy - A poet meets a duck on a bridge in Milwaukee. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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FOR THREE
3 female
Under Spacious Skies - drama - scene where two teen Jewish refugees have their first day harvesting tomatoes at an Iowa farmstead run by the Quakers. From my full-length Under Spacious Skies..
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Massachusetts - Bewitched, Ghostly goings on in Salem, MA. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology..
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1 female, 1 male, 1 either male or female
A Tale of Two Ornaments - comedy; two ornaments are falling in love as they are being terrorized by a kitten
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Sam and Willa and Jeeves; comedy about a magical fish, fish and chips, and Shakespeare.
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Connecticut - The Reindeer Constellation, comedy; Christmas; Pretty sure Santa's not supposed to arrive on a tugboat.
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Colorado - Rocky Mountain Oysters; Who knew Colorado had Oysters? Comedy for "foodies."
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Vermont - One with Nature - comedy - Move to Vermont! There's snow on the ground all year, the biting flies are huge and it's paradise on earth. Maybe.,
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2 male, 1 female
The Boy with the Triangle; comedy; Meredith Wilson struggles and struggles to create The Music Man. True story.
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By Candlelight - drama - from full length play about teens coming together after 9/11 (obtain rights and/or read publishers script - Playscripts)
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2 female, 1 male
A Day of Dreaming - "Nobody Can Hear You Scream" scene - comedy; a young girl trying to take the perfect photo meets a stranger with a penchant for horror stories... or worse. A new vignette play published by Eldridge Publishing. Read script here: A Day of Dreaming - Eldridge
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She Came in through the Bathroom Window - A long-lost scene from Romeo and Juliet that Shakespeare deleted.
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Kafka and the Doll - adventure- fantasy; Lisette meets some alley-cats; from full-length youth play Kafka and the Doll
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Washington - December 26 - Christmas is perfect. December 26th is another thing. Comedy. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology
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2 female, 1 either male or female
Rhode Island; Maddie visits the lighthouse of Ida Lewis every day. Ida Lewis was once known as "the bravest woman in America." And Maddie needs to be brave. Drama.
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3 any gender
NEW! *Actually this one is 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 any gender: How To Survive Almost Anything - comedy, a self-help play about surviving a t-rex, bees, drowning or an asteroid attack.
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Hawaii - The Invisible Birds - comedy; It's not fair that only a god can see birds. Or is it? Adapted from lore.
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Something - comedy, Cat is upset when they cast a human as "Cat" and not Cat! From the new anthology of Beatles' song titles.
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Here Comes the Sun: Bernie, Dakota and Moon take off very early to see the sun rise. It's very important.
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Ohio - Revenge of the Squirrels; comedy; Ohio is the "Buckeye" state and squirrels like Buckeye nuts... and more. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Tarred and Feathered - comedy; three kids trying to stage a protest when everything goes wrong
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FOR CAST OF 4
4 female
New! Louisa and Her Little Women - serio-comic; the introductory scene of Louisa and her sisters. From the new full-length LOUISA AND HER LITTLE WOMEN.
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2 male, 2 female
1 male 1 female, OR 1 male, 1 female + 2 or more (much more) of either gender
And Frank Sinatra Singing in a Fig Tree - a holiday play about romance and Italian food
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Maryland - Under the Boardwalk; comedy, semi-romantic and the characters are crabs. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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Utah - Time; Serio-Comic; 2 grandparents and 2 of their grandchildren; time passes; don't let gratitude wait. From UNITED PLAYS OF AMERICA anthology.
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1 male, 3 females
Total Male Syndrome - 4 (3 female, 1 male)Video games, Christmas wrapping and surprises. Comedy.
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Gentle Assassins - WW2 drama; language appropriate but subject matter best for high school. Based on three female, teen spies in Amsterdam and the one assignment they refused to do.
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4 any gender
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life Goes On. 4 (any gender) about grief.
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We Three Cats - 4 any gender. Three cats are determined to knock off the star on top of the Christmas tree. Who are you rooting for? Comedy.
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Cast of Five or More
Tyrannical Angelicals - 5 (1 male, 1 female, 3 any gender). A young couple is trying to get their newborn to sleep. Angels singing loudly and a drummer is not helping the situation. Comedy.
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The Magic Fishbone - Scene 1; Cast of 5. 2 female, 1 male, 2 any gender. How Alicia acquired the Magic Fishbone - adapted from the Charles Dickens short story. Published by Big Dog Plays. (To read more of the play, go to The Magic Fishbone.)
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