Drama
These plays, skits, dramatic readings
and pagents are arranged according to difficulty. The activities
are for confidence building, followed by skits that require
little or no rehearsal. Readings take fewer people and
some rehearsal, while plays require lots of people and
lots of rehearsal. Near the end of this page, you'll find a few
plays for advanced actors or for older teens because of
the nature of the topic of the scripts. There is a section for
Christmas plays and one site with a lot of Christian scripts.
At the very end you'll find help with staging and costumes.
Activities
Activities for Developing Confidence
Afraid to get on stage? Select from these easy activities to
help build your confidence.
Children's Creative Theater Guide
A history of theatre, activities to help you get started, terms
used in drama, and a short Thanksgiving Day skit.
Social Studies and Language: Two Situations to Act Out
Two scenerios for improvisation: Tourists in our town and how
can we improve our town? From Teaching Online.
Advice for Homeschoolers
Directing a Homeschool Play
Before we began rehearsals, the moms asked whether I'd want help. Not to diss parents or anything, but homeschool moms tend to take control, and because I'm "rebellious," I decided I didn't need or want any help. I could do this on my own. The kids would take my direction. I knew what I was doing, and we could pull together everything we needed on our own. By Nathan Colpitts, HEM N/D 07.
Hard Choices: Casting your play
When you sit down to start making the tough decisions, take a list of characters, go through the audition sheets, and write each actorçs name down beside every key role you think they could play. The idea here is to get a list of potential actors who could tackle each role. In doing so, you should be able to give yourself two or three options for every key role. John Cosper, Righteous Insanity.
The Play's the Thing
The goal of Stagelight is to help the kids carry their success into other areas of their lives, to help them become comfortable in their own skin. When that goal is reached, the play is most certainly the thing. By Sandra S. Gaffigan, HEM J/F 2010.
Skits
Audience Participation Stories
Scout skits that encourage the audience to take part, often by
making certain sounds when certain words are used by the actors
or story teller.
Camp
Skits
Most of the skits listed here require minimal preparation, and
can be easily adapted to accommodate groups of all sizes.
Little
Orphan Annie
CHILD 1: Little Orphan Annie's come to our house to stay, (ANNIE
ENTERS, picks up stuff, hangs it up)
And wash the cups and saucers up, and brush the crumbs away...
MacScouter's
Big Book of Skits
Want to put on a funny skit and amuse your friends and families?
Gary Hendra is part of our scouting community here in Milpitas.
Enjoy his large collection of skits for scouts and others.
The
Meal Must Go On !-A Lesson in Cooperation
This skit takes place on Thanksgiving at the home of Grandma
and Grandpa. There is a little arguing going on in the refrigerator,
find out what happens.
Miranda's
Veterinarian's Hospital Page
You gotta admit that Veterinarian's Hospital is one of the best
parts of The Muppet Show, right? At least, I think so. You can
relive the scenes by reading the following transcripts.
Short
'n' Simple Skits
Many comics make good short skits. Check out: Calvin & Hobbes
(sold in book form now) and Dilbert and Zits for skits using
ordinary clothing and few props. Other comics in the newspaper
make good short skits.
Songs,
Skits and Yells
Most of these songs, skits and yells have been taken from various
places arround the internet. The original source is indicated
where known.
Readings
Abbott
and Costello's "Who's on First?"
Complete script for a dramatic reading for two people. Sound file, too, so you can learn to get the timing right.
Generic Radio Workshop
Online repository of scripts from the Golden Age of Radio: the
original and largest collection of radio transcripts on the World
Wide Web.
Poetry
Theater
Perform rhyming poetry plays with these funny and short poems.
Readers'
Theater
Aaron's scripts for small groups of actors about 3rd-9th grade.
Play Scripts
Classic Movie Scripts
Scripts and Transcripts to Classic Movies (and others) made before
1970. Culled from various sources on the internet.
Hansel
and Gretel and the Big Woods
Once upon a time, there was a brother and a sister named Hansel
and Gretel. They lived in a cottage in the woods with their father
who loved them very much, and their stepmother who had her sanity
to consider.
Little
Women
Classic movie script. 1933, RKO Radio Pictures Inc., Directed
by George Cukor.
Peter Pan
By J. M. Barrie. The cuckoo clock strikes six, and Nana springs into life.This first moment in the play is tremendously important, for if the actor playing Nana does not spring properly we are undone.
Plays
This drama magazine for young people offers something for everyone.
New plays monthly, with a huge archive of royalty free plays
for children. Scripts in PDF format.
The
Princess Bride
Does it got any sports in it? Are you kidding? It's got fencing,
fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes,
True Love, miracles and more!
Rinse
the Blood off My Toga
My name is Flavius Maximus, Private Roman Eye. Licence number
MCMLXXVIII. It also comes in handy as an eye chart. I'm gonna
tell ya about the Julius Caesar Caper. It all began during the
Ides of March. I had just nailed Sutoniuos the Gladiator, he
had a crooked lion who kept takin a dive. Anyhow, I was just
beginning to rest on my laurels when suddenly... HE burst in
to my office.
Sasha
and the Pearl
Fairy tale-style script that can be adapted to puppet theater
featuring a princess, a witch, a lobster king and other assorted
characters.
Wendy's Wizard of Oz Script
Everybody's cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical
from MGM during its golden years.
Whootie
Owl's Free Fairytale Play Scripts
Eighth grade students of a middle school in Massachusetts, supervised
by an English teacher, authored seven of the eight plays based
on stories found on this web site. These are quite well done!
Don't pass up this site because the authors are young!
Advanced Scripts
for Mature Actors
Folk Play Research
Home Page
English folk plays, often called Mummers' Plays, are short traditional
verse sketches performed at Christmas, Easter and other annual
festivals and taken round pubs and private houses.
The
Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
By Lord Alfred Tennyson. Complete script for those who would
like to do an olde English play.
The Oxford Shakespeare
You could layout the plays as you like it, illustrate, have scripts
for everyone, and all's well that ends well. From Bartleby.com.
Saint Joan
By George Bernard Shaw. Consider the career of Joan. She was a village girl, in authority over sheep and pigs, dogs and chickens, and to some extent over her father's hired laborers when he hired any, but over no one else on earth. Outside the farm she had no authority, no prestige, no claim to the smallest deference. Yet she ordered everybody about, from her uncle to the king, the archbishop, and the military General Staff.
Waiting
for Godot
By Samuel Beckett. The basic plot revolves around two characters
who have been told they must wait for Godot, though they aren't
sure who he is or what he looks like. Many opportunities come
their way, but they turn them down because they might miss Godot.
Christian Plays
The Baker's
Dozen
A Saint Nicholas Tale, Told by Aaron Shepard. In the Dutch colonial
town later known as Albany, New York, there lived a baker, Van
Amsterdam, who was as honest as he could be.
The
Birth of Jesus
Your basic Luke 2 nativity skit, nicely formated for young actors.
Christmas
Around the World - a Christmas Play
A simple Christmas pagent with lots of built-in flexibility so
it could be performed by a family or a large group.
A Christmas Carol
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
This must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can come
of the story I am going to relate.
Christmas
Plays
Short plays suitable for young folks, Free to download. Please
make a donation if you decide to perform.
Christmas Skit
Divide the group into four smaller groups and assign each group
one of the words listed here. Read the story. After each of the
words is read pause for the group to sing the first line of the
song.
The War
Prayer
By Mark Twain. You have heard your minister pray, "Grant
us victory, O Lord our God." The Lord too has heard this
prayer, and He will grant it-if such is your desire. But first
I am commanded to explain to you its full meaning. For it is
not one prayer, but two -- one spoken, the other not. Listen
now to the silent prayer.
Staging
Blood
Recipes
Theatrical events, videos, and vampire LARPs (not to mention
the occasional sick leave) can rely on the use of fake blood
to impart realism to a scene. Here's a few recipes you might
like to use if you ever find yourself in need of blood, and don't
want to get it the hard way.
The
History of Costume
These plates consisted of historical dress from antiquity to
the end of the 19th century. This complete online book is an
excellent source for students who are studying the history of
fashion and for costume designers. By Braun & Schneider -
c.1861-1880.
Phantasmechanics
If you love to decorate your home for Halloween, are involved
in an annual Haunted House, or simply have an interest in special
effects, you are in the right place.
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