Products tagged with 'Comedy'

68 pages

5 m, 9 w, 4-6 extras, 18-20 roles

Perfect for high school performers, this fresh adaptation sets Jane Austen’s beloved novel in the hallways of Pemberley High School. Elizabeth Bennet is a smart, outspoken cheerleader just trying to survive junior year. But life gets complicated when wealthy transfer student Charles Bingley arrives and instantly falls for Elizabeth’s sister Jane. His pretentious best friend and president of the drama club, William Darcy, seems determined to ruin everyone’s happiness – especially Elizabeth’s.

As Elizabeth navigate...

55 pages

3 m, 6 w, 1 flexible

It's 1986 in rural Mississippi and the ladies of Teterboro Trailer Park are in quite a jam after slacker Bobcat is served his just desserts. Meals and motives abound, and alliances with a nosy neighbor and a six-toed cowboy are forged. What follows is a nonstop madcap cover-up full of hilarious hijinks, witty retorts, a church play gone haywire, and "bunco!"

84 pages

Minimum cast of 10 plus drama teacher to 40+

The Updated Best-Selling Classic!

Here's a comedy that covers nearly every angle of the typical high school play with a dose of history and improvisation thrown in for good measure! A group of actors, who have apparently been abandoned by their drama teacher, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. In this hilarious metatheatrical comedy, a desperate Stage Manager and an overly confid...

34 pages

Approximately 20 Actors. Some doubling possible.

A drama class is bringing a cutting of “Romeo and Juliet,” the famous play about star-crossed lovers, to competition. But the truck with their set pieces and props has broken down on the highway, Romeo’s throwing up backstage, and Juliet is adamantly not using a tall stepladder to replace the missing balcony. But the show must go on! This funny, fast-paced ensemble comedy mixes legitimate Shakespeare scenes with controlled chaos, theater inside jokes, and absolutely no respect for the fourth wall. About 30 minutes.

68 pages

4 m, 5 w, 5 - 9 flexible

  Welcome to East Beverly Hills High, where old money meets new technology in this hilarious contemporary adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel. When mysterious transfer student Jason “Gatsby” Gatz arrives with designer clothes (price tags still attached) and a suspicious cryptocurrency fortune, he turns the school's social hierarchy upside down. His mission? To win the heart of popular girl Violet Fay, who once shared her graham crackers with him in kindergarten – a memory he's never quite gotten over.

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20 pages

2 m, 2 w, 3 flexible

Aaron, an awkward high-schooler, is struggling to find the nerve to talk to his crush, Emily. After yet another failed attempt, three aspects of his personality, Confidence, Nervousness, and Doubt, appear to help him overcome his woes. These Aspects each demonstrate ways in which they think Aaron should woo Emily, but all end in failure (or just utter embarrassment). Just when all hope seems lost, Sam, the representation of the "true self," appears to offer some sage advice. When Aaron takes this advice, he successfully asks Emily out and exits in victory. Em...