Browse : School Issues, Drama and Middle School (Page 2)

Lift Every Voice

Product Code: LN3000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 6 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Lift Every Voice, which is based on a true story, explores the impact of racism in an urban high school. When the class president of an elite inner-city high school posts a racially inflammatory message on social media, tensions explode, loyalties are tested and long-simmering resentments boil over as the six members of the student council grapple with the fallout and how to move forward. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Searchers

By Laurie Brooks.

Product Code: S4H000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 6m., 6w., 6 to 25 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

With humor, conflict and theatricality, a chapter in the lives of three teens unfolds. Sammie’s parents are divorcing. Ben has been in a traumatic car accident that left his mother disabled. And loner Isaac longs to be part of a crowd that secretly makes fun of him. All three characters search for answers as a friendship between them grows. An optional interactive forum between the characters and the audience offers a bonding experience, brainstorming possible solutions to the issues presented in the play. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

The War of the Worlds

Product Code: WK5000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 2w., 6 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

During the morning video announcements at Grover's Mill High, something not of this Earth crash lands in the football stadium. Inspired by Orson Wells’ radio broadcast, this modern adaptation is designed to be rehearsed and performed live online. Through a series of Zoom calls, our morning-show hosts find themselves covering the biggest story in human history. Martians have landed and are taking over the Earth. Can our group of scrappy high-schoolers survive the invasion? This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Tomás and the Library Lady

Adapted by José Cruz González. From the book by Pat Mora.

Product Code: TV9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 1 to 4m., 1 to 4w., expandable.

Limited Livestream Rights Available
Contact our customer service department for more information.
Approx. Run Time: 50 min.

Adapted from the well-loved book, Tomás and the Library Lady tells the inspiring true story of Tomás Rivera, who grew up in a migrant worker family, befriended a librarian in Iowa, and learned to love books and the places they took him. Tomás went on to a successful career in academia and became the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. This play can be readily understood by both English and Spanish speakers. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Future, Here

By Jeremy F. Richter.

Product Code: FG1000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College
Cast Size: 5 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Welcome to Future, an unincorporated village monitored by Society and populated by five randomly selected children. It is driven by a national effort to develop “appropriately adapted young citizens.” They are constantly fed a steady stream of news and pop culture on their smartphones and meet daily to share what they’ve learned. Having lived in Future for 12 years, the residents are now 18, and today is their last day together, their final meeting before they learn of their next residence outside of Future. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

World of Wonder

Book and lyrics by Tonya Hays. Music and lyrics by Genesis Be.

Product Code: WK1000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 3m., 4w., 6 to 12 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

At 2 years old, Noah is diagnosed with autism. He stops talking, won't look people in the eyes and doesn't wish to be touched. Jenny, Noah's older sister, journeys into Noah's world and finds the courage and strength to understand and support his struggles. The family comes to understand that autism is not a death of dreams but another way to live and that Noah is different but not less. World of Wonder invites all to join the adventure and take the first step in understanding autism. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act Version)

By Eric Coble.

Product Code: GD9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 7 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, seven very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A one-act digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges

By Christina M. Ham. Music by Gary Rue.

Product Code: RD8000

Drama
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
Cast Size: 11 to 16m., 11 to 20w., 5 to 9 either gender.

Limited Streaming Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. When the white families learned of Ruby’s enrollment, they pulled their children from her class, leaving Ruby and her teacher the only ones in the classroom for the school year. Her family watched helplessly as federal marshals escorted Ruby to school each day past protesters jeering and threatening her life. This musical explores a little girl’s unbeatable courage in the face of adversity. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

The Hundred Dresses

By Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills. Based on the book by Eleanor Estes.

Product Code: HH1000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 3 to 5m., 5w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Wanda, a second-grader, wears a faded blue dress every day, but she tells her classmates that she has a hundred dresses at home. Soon Wanda's classmates make a game of teasing her about her hundred dresses until she doesn't come to school one day, leaving just an empty seat. As feelings of guilt overtake the children, they decide they must find out what happened to Wanda and make amends for the way they treated her. Bullying, friendship and forgiveness are touched upon in this adaptation. Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Stargirl

By Y York. From the novel by Jerry Spinelli.

Product Code: S2F000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 4m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

All is copacetic in the fall of the new school year as junior Leo Borlock settles in to produce his moderately popular school TV show, The Hot Seat, and keep himself safely behind the camera and out of anybody's line of fire. His safe existence implodes with the arrival of the weirdly fabulous Stargirl, whose impetuous enthusiasm for all-things-Leo forces him to choose between his own secure conformity and the glories offered by the girl from the stars.

Learn More

$10.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

In Stock

Qty:

Script use:

Learn More

Browse

Filter By

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Limited Livestream Rights Available

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Limited Streaming Rights Available

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available