Ordering Plays - Theatrefolk

Monster Problems
by Lindsay Price
Dramedy, Character Study, Issue-Based
40 Minutes, 9M+13W+2 Either
Monster
Problems
HS/MS/New!
Starting high school can be
nerve-wracking and problemfilled.
Am I going to fit in? Am I
going to be popular? Will I have
the right reputation? What if I do
something that ruins the rest of
high school?
Olivia, Sam and Brooke are overwhelmed. They
think about these problems all day, every day to the
point that things are getting rather monstrous. They
are going to have to deal with their problems or risk
being consumed. Vampires, Zombies, and Snakes
oh my! What happens when problems get the best
of you?
This play was designed for a high school class to
perform for middle school students and would be an
excellent “intro to high school” project. Or use it in
your middle school class as a tool for the transition
into high school.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $101.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p253
Moving / Still: Two
One Act Plays
by Lindsay Price
Drama, Character Study, Student Directors
Book: $8.95, PDF: $7.95
tfolk.me/p100
Moving (5W)
A group of best friends help Darcy prepare for a
date. She's taking extra special care: the right lip
gloss, the right skirt. But why? Darcy's keeping
secrets and she's not telling. Andrea knows and
it's only a matter of time before she explodes.
Moving is a rapid-fire characterdriven
comedy with a heart.
Rights: $40.00, Photocopy: $25.95, Video: $40.00
Still (1M+1W)
Nate and Caroline used to be the Fun Couple:
nicknames, silly catchphrases and secret
handshakes. But there's a problem: Nate doesn't
want to grow up, and Caroline already has.
A bittersweet story with a twist - once
you grow up you can never go back.
Rights: $40.00, Photocopy: $13.95, Video: $40.00
Nice Girl
by Amanda Murray Cutalo
Dramedy
35 Minutes, 11W, Plus Ensemble
Nice
Girl
HS
HS/MS/New!
Is there such a thing as being “too
nice?” Mia, a teenage girl at an
all-girls school, knows how to be a
confident and assertive young
woman who is not afraid to stand up
for herself; the only problem is she
can only act this way in her fantasies.
In Mia’s reality, she is the kind of girl who does her
friends’ homework, lets people cut in front of her in
line, and pretends to be someone she’s not in order to
get a boy to like her.
As she repeatedly learns, being the “nice girl”
requires a great deal of sacrifice and, often,
frustration. As Mia eventually nears her breaking
point, she decides the time has come for her fantasies
to become reality.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $49.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p257
No Horse Town
by Lindsay Price
Black Comedy, Experimental Form
25 Minutes, 3M+7W
A highly stylized comedy.
Heywood is a special kind of place. A small town
where everyone knows everyone.
When Jimmy wants to do something that proves
he's a man, the whole town knows before he's even
finished the thought.
HS/MS
In Heywood, when a guy wants to prove he's a man,
he goes to the edge of town. For there's something at
the edge of town that can't be found in Heywood: A
street. Heywood is a no car, no horse, no street town.
And for the young men of Heywood, crossing the
street is as daring and as dangerous as it gets…
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $45.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p114
One Hundred Lies
by Alan Haehnel
Dramedy
30 Minutes, 5M+10W, Doubling Possible
In this poignant comedy, teenager Liz Nostrand
presents her life as a competition, complete with
scoreboard and time clock. The goal of the game: To
dramatize, in only 30 minutes, 100 significant lies
told by and to Liz.
By the final buzzer, though, we see that the most
crucial lies in Liz's life are those she has told herself.
One Hundred Lies brings you in laughing and sends
you out thinking.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $69.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p97
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
adapted by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt from Robert Browning
Dramedy, Classical Adaptation, Young Audiences
20 Minutes, 23 Either, Rats
The people of Hamelin are in a terrible way! They're
being run over by rats.
Rats! They fought the dog and killed the cats, and ate
the cheese out of the vats, made nests inside men's
Sunday hats, and even spoiled the women's chats.
When the Piper comes to solve their rat problems, it
looks like Hamelin is saved. Or is it?
There are consequences for those who do not pay the
piper. Ever wonder where the phrase "Pay the piper"
comes from?
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $97.95, Rights: $25.00, Video: $25.00
tfolk.me/p160
The Plucky Pie Murder
by Dara Murphy
Black Comedy, Mystery
45 Minutes, 8M+4W
HS
MS
HS/MS
The star quarterback of Riverview High School has
been charged with murder most fowl! Rooster, to be
precise.
Plucky the mascot has been done in and all fingers
point to the football player - even his own.
A farce of a trial ensues featuring an inept judge, an
unprepared defence lawyer, and an Egg-Girl.
The audience plays the jury in this hilarious black
comedy. Two possible endings!
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $53.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p47
Power Play
by Lindsay Price
Drama, Experimental Form, Issue-Based
55 Minutes, 2M+3W
A gunshot is heard. Which of the five characters did
it and why?
Was it the Goth girl? The football star? The superintelligent
geek?
High school violence is a hot media topic, but it is too
often simplistically portrayed by putting teens into
tidy categories and pointing at the outsider.
Power Play explores the realities and the stereotypes
of high school violence - not just the brutal shock of
the school shooting, but also verbal harassment and
bullying. Violence is about power. So is high school.
NOTE: This play requires the onstage appearance
of a gun.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $25.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p43
The Pregnancy Project
by Lindsay Price
Drama, Character Study, Issue-Based
60 Minutes, 5M+15W
The project seems simple enough. Everyone (girls
AND boys) wears a pregnancy belly to simulate
what it feels like to be pregnant. Bonus points go to
students who wear the belly 24/7. Easy, right? It's not
as if it's real.
Lucy, who seems to live the ideal life, isn't finding the
project so easy. She's a week late. And every day that
passes is another day when life is far from ideal.
Each member of the ensemble gets a monologue in
this issue-driven play. No statistics. No preaching.
Just well-drawn characters and an engaging story.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $85.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p93
Pressure
by Lindsay Price
Character Study, Choral Work, Issue-Based
45 Minutes, 5M+11W, Plus Ensemble
Not a typical "teen angst" play.
Four teenagers struggle with life. Alex is a refugee.
Tera is faced with an unpopular decision when all
she wants to be is popular. Penny is getting up at five
in the morning just so she can accomplish all she has
to do in a day. And Kyle can't live up to his parents'
expectations. It is the week before the prom and for
these four characters, everything is coming to a head.
This play is candid and uncompromising, with no
easy answers or neat and tidy endings. The script is
ideal for groups who have varying degrees of ability.
There are parts for both novice and advanced actors.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $69.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p19
Prom Night
by Sylvia Davenport-Veith
Character Study, Romantic Comedy
35 Minutes, 1M+2W
Prom night has not been fun for Imena Hart. She
fought off her date, tore her dress, broke her high
heel, left her glasses at home and her mother won't
stop calling.
Dillon McGinty's not having a ball, either. His date
wasn't named Prom Queen, so she got drunk and
accused Dillon of not being fun anymore.
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HS
HS
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