HaveScripts

LIST OF PLAYS, SCRIPTS, AND SKITS BY AUTHOR

The following writers have provided us with adaptations of old and modern classics. You can find dramas, comedies, melodramas, collections of short-shorts for senior performers, Shakespeare and other literary classics for young people, as well as original one-act and full-length dramas and comedies, Ideal for mainstage or black box stage in regional, community or college and university theatres, as well as scripts and skits for religious occasions and Sunday school programs.

Several of our writers have turned their talents toward developing plays, scripts, and skits especially for seniors and retirement facility venues. If you download our catalog, you will find a special readers’ theater section with plays... comedies, dramas, one-acts, and full-lengths... adapted for reading in either the classroom or the senior center meeting room.

Valetta Anderson

She’ll Find Her Way Home: a romance of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in two acts

The Moral of the Story: an ancient African comic fable for elementary and middle-school in one act

Robert P. Arthur

Front Porch Trilogy: three comic and touching plays from the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Phaedra: a mythic drama in 7 scenes

Hymn to the Chesapeake: a haunting musical of the Eastern Shore

Anna Barker

Back in the Groove: a musical comedy revue of the 1960's

Ludmilla Bollow

Short Shorts for Seniors: a collection of short plays for senior cast

Roy C. Booth

The Lovely Red Flower: a children’s fable in one act.

Mickey Coburn

The Unmasking of Yetta Brean: a family comedy/drama in two acts.

Oliver Twist: a holiday play in thirteen scenes

Snow White: a rollicking adaptation from the original fairy tale in two acts

Herschel and Happy: a participatory comic play for children by Mickey Coburn.

Cinderella: a stylish comedy for children, teens, and adults from Charles Perrault’s fairytale

The Sleeping Beauty: a gently humorous adaptation of the original fairy tale

Baba Yaga Acts Up: a participatory comedy in six scenes

D. D. Delaney

The Concise Dickens’ Christmas Carol A 50-minute tour-de-force bringing Dickens’ classic powerfully to life by D. D. Delaney

Shakespeare Playing for Laughs: a comedy for the stage in one act for teens

Shakespeare After School: a comedy for teens in one act by D. D. Delaney.

The Pears of Heaven: A Passion Play for the Spring Equinox

Nativity: part of a series of plays relating to the soltice, entitled Pastures of the Sun

John F. X. Delaney

The Aviators: a senior performer comedy/drama in one act

Gillette Elvgren

Brendan’s Journey: a full length spiritual adventure tale

The Selfish Giant: a full-length fantasy based on Oscar Wilde’s story for children, teens, and adults

Everykid: a moral comedy based on the Everyman tale: a play for children and teens

The Tempest: an adaptation of Shakespeare’s romance

MacBeth for Kids: An adaptation for young audiences

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: retold for young audiences

For the Least of These: inspirational monologues

Spread your Garment over Me: more inspirational

Brendan’s Journey: a full length adventure

More . . . Old Testament Bible Sketches For Children

More. . . New Testament Bible Sketches For Children

B.A. Hite

Campers: A one-act slice-of-life comedy

Birdwatchers: another slice-of-life comedy by B. A. Hite.

In the Second Place: a one-act award winning comedy

A Chair: a one-act comedy for senior cast

Michael J. Hotchkiss

Happy Occasions: a family comedy in one act.

Fall Back, Spring Ahead: a comedy in one act

Bible Bits and Skits for Teens: ten short plays for Sunday School

David H. Klein

An Evening with Joyce’s Women: three one act plays from James Joyce’s classic “Dubliners”

The Dead: a one-act adaptation from Joyce’s “Dubliners”

The Boarding House: a one-act adaptation from Joyce’s Dubliners

Eveline: a one-act adaptation from Joyce’s

Jean H. Klein and David H. Klein

An Enemy of the People--“En Folkefiende”: a comedy in two acts

Jean H. Klein

The Chimes: a classic Dickens New Year script.

The Passing of Grandison: a full-length comedy adapted from Charles Chestnutt’s story

The Best is Yet to Be: a family comedy in one act

The Devil’s Due: a one-act psychological comedy

Nightside: an urban comedy in one act

The Pinch Hitter: a contemporary comedy in one act

Jean Klein and Fred Ewing

The Thieves' Christmas: a comic holiday musical

The Three Thieves: a light-hearted family musical

H. L. Liptak

Mystery of the Pirate’s Cave: a rip-roaring middle-school comedy

Kathleen Lockwood

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: a comic thriller adapted for the stage from Mary Shelley’s novel

Planetary Prelude: a comedy in one act, for performers who speak sign language (a play for elementary and middle-school)

Alice’s Adventures: a comedy in eight scenes adapted from Lewis Carroll’s Classics

The Emperor’s New Clothes: stage adaptation with roles for for VSAarts performers

The Red Shoes: a one-act stage adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story

Robin of Sherwood Forest: a one-act play in four scenes adapted from the original tales of Robin Hood

Beauty and the Beast: adapted from the classic 12th century French Folk Tale

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a simple-to-act adaptation

Kathleen Lockwood and Anna Barker

Back in the Groove: a musical comedy revue of the 1960's

Leslie McBlair

Best Always, Marilyn Monroe: a play in two acts

Charlotte Bronte Remembers...

...the afternoon of ‘noms de plume’: a drama in one act

A Tall Turkey Tale from Old Virginia: a one act Thanksgiving comedy

Fanny and Manny Tie the Knot: Delicious Dinner Comedy

Playing in the Liturgy: a collection of short plays enacting the seasonal gospel

Kay Rhoads

From the Back Seat: A family comedy in one act featuring senior performers

David Rush,

Oregon Fever: a compelling American play in one act

Nikos Vlachos

Christmas in Montana: a hilarious one-act comedy for young actors

P. A. Wray

Lamentations of a Demented Old Woman: a play in minutes for senior casting

Judy Ziegler

Funding Follies: a one-act musical revue in six scenes

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ScriptWorks Press provides books to challenge and change your classroom atmosphere. Get your kids out of their desks and on their feet, scripts in hand, laughing, learning, and experiencing literature, history, and culture through plays that work in the classroom or on the school stage. Click on book titles below for more information or to purchase.

Priming the Pump

The Lottery Winner

A Taxing Experience

A Slippery Slope

Christmas in Montana

Cell

An American Tragedy

Inside and Out

Finals

Going to the Dogs

The Trunk Show

I Am the Brother of Dragons by Gillette Elvgren . These five plays explore the dark side of today's teens--cutting, pregnancy, drugs--with unexpected humor and theatricality.

TEACHERS LOUNGE: Your Resource for Literature, Drama, and History

New Category: Short Shorts

Available via email only

Redemption

Three Parish Passion Plays

by Fr. Gerald Gurka

An Evening with Joyce's Women by David Klein is comprised of the dramatizations of three stories from Dubliners: 'The Boarding House,' 'Eveline,' and 'The Dead,.' ranging from vicious comedy to haunting melancholy.

Spoken Word: 2013

Art in Education Lives!

At least it does at the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, California. They are currently producing and touring Gillette Elvgren's Ophelia Lives!, one of 5 plays in his book, The Brother of Dragons. These plays

dramatically engage their audiences

in the problems facing teens today:

drug abuse, suicide, family dysfunction

and detachment, pregnancy, and a

quest for values. Two performances

at the Center scheduled for April are

already sold out and 15 touring

productions for schools and one

juvenile facility are currently in progress

with a promise of more to come.

Jim Johnson, Director of the Arts Education Program commented on the production at the juvenile facility: "The response of that audience had one of our staff members in tears.".

Behind Closed Doors: Seven Scenes of Shattered Love

“For most people, death comes behind closed doors… a quiet event, perhaps shared

by friends and family…But

for some there’s drama,

even horror as some commit

suicide, are murdered, or executed.”

From Author’s Preface Read imagined

dialogues between Sir Walter Ralegh and

Bess Throckmorton, Marie

Antoinette and Louis XVI,

Williiam and Catherine Blake,

Theodore and Alice Roosevelt,

Signumd and Martha Freud, Virginia and Leonard Woolf,

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

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Scripts for the Seasons:

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Full-Length Plays

Best Always, Marilyn Monroe by Kathleen McBlair What happened to a beautiful woman? Why? “The play, therefore, is as much a meditation on the dark side of glamour and fame as it is an imagining of the inner demons tormenting a particular, insecure Hollywood star.”D.D. Delaney, Thinking Dog Blog Reviews May 27, 2011

Brendan's Journey by Gillette Elvgren In this monk's adventure , 2 actors play many roles.

Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver--in both a male and female version, survivors of sexual abuse begin to redeem their lives

High School Audiences

both stage and classroom

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A Reluctant Malachi

by Thomas J. Quinlan

A RELUCTANT MALACHI is a collection of Thomas J. Quinlan’s sometimes serious, sometimes ribald, and often hilarious homilies, reflections, fantasies, and published work .

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NEW! Friends & Relations: 3 one-acts for Seniors

by Evan Guilford-Blake

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Nat's Last Struggle

by P. A. Wray--Nat Turner

looks back on his life. Produced

to rave reviews by the Earl

Hamner, Jr. Theater and

by The Venue on 35th, Click on cover.

The ABCs of Memory

Read tthe complete review by Scott Whiitaker in the Broadkill Review.

"The ABCs of Memory, from ScriptWorks Press, mashes two books of poetry, with opposing ideals, together, a tradition that hearkens back to Blake, An Alphabet from An Ample Nation, and An Alphabet of Modest Means. Memory strikes a contemporary

Haunted

Houses

TheTrial

Mary and Joseph.

'Enemy of the People Cut but uncensored! This version of “Enemy of the People,” whose title in Norwegian is “En Folkefiende,” is unlike many previous versions of Ibsen’s groundbreaking social comedy. It dramatizes the real targets of Ibsen’s cutting scorn and his unique observations on the complex world a man faces when he jousts at social and political windmills.

HISTORICAL MONOLOGUES

A Mirror in Time: Reflections on Love, Relationship and Marriage

by Doris Gwaltney: a delightful collection of

monologues about great figures in history and their

love interests. Will Shakespeare,

Kate Hogarth Dickens, Tsali of the Cherokees,

Harriet Tubman, and more give you glimpses

into their lives, times and hearts.

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chord, cherishing the past while tightening the belt on the future, a theme most Americans could identify with in these recent years of economic recovery. Lianne’s ABCs are broad in depth and range, and

touch on cultural milestones such as Elvis, Nancy Drew, Wonder Bread, 9-11, and Ty Cobb, as well as personal memories of her family. These poems are celebrations, elegies, and like the titles of the books, or parts suggest, hint at a plethora of riches, or a plethora of troubles, big and small." Broadkill Review

All the World's My Stage

by H. L. Liptak. Three class-room tested, side-splitting comedies take middle and high school students on a tour of history, culture, geography, and literature. Perfect for stage and classroom. (Notes for classroom and production for each play.

American Breeze by Helen Mondloch

Join Breeze, the narrator of a joyride through American literary history. A comic tour through American literature. Join the likes of Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Emily Dickenson in a book students love to read on their feet.

New!!! Plays With Music

Feathers in the Wind: in an adaptation of Jewish folketales, the foolish people of Chelm try to find a rabbi. (David Rush and Errol Pearlman)

The Three Sarahs: a one-woman cabaret or a 3-woman show, Sarah gives us the lowdown on life with Abe. (Gillette Elvgren)

Canterbury Tales: a musical adaptation of the classic tales (Gillette Elvgren)

Hymn to the Chesaeake: a haunting tale of life among the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. (Robert P. Arthur)

The Stoff of Balthzar: a woman fights thieves and henchman in a medieval forest for the return of her huband for the holidays. (Jean Klein and Fred Ewing)

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Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus, by Kathleen McBlair: a theatrical rendering of Mary Shelley's original thriller Book or Script Book Script Version

Haunted Houses by Ludmilla Bollow: the playwright probes a family's psyche--for more than Halloween

Lambs' Tales by Gerald Gurka: a collection of Christmas pageant plays for all ages

The Trial of Mary and Joseph, A Mediaeval Mystery Play by Matthew Powell, O.P.

A Concise Christmas Carol by D. D. Delaney: a 1 - 4 actor 50=minute version of Dickens' Christmas Carol.

The Chimes by Charles Dickens adapted by Jean Klein, a re-telling of Dickens' classic New Year's tale.

A Colonial Christmas by Gillette Elvgren;:a comically dysfunctional family is transported back to Christmas Eve, 1776 where they meet up with General George Washington crossing the Delaware and discover the Christmas roots and traditions they had lost.

Olive Twist adapted by Mickey Coburn: This Dickens tale is always a favorite around the holidays.

The Snow Queen by Gillette Elvgren follows the adventures of the young girl Gerda as she strives to free her best friend Kay from the icy grip of the Snow Queen.

Fall Back, Spring Ahead by Michail J. Hotchkiss: a one-act in which DST wreaks its havoc on a family.

A Taxing Experience by Harriet Schley: a 10-minute play in which a customer "taxed the patience of the tax perparer.

Christmas in Montana by Nichos Vlachos: a short-short holiday comic about political correctness in a one-room schoolhouse.

Shakespeare With A Twist

A Midsummer's Nights Dream by Gillette Elvgen

Reverse Hamlet but George Freek

Macbeth for Kids by Gillette Elvgren

Shakespeare, Playing for Laughs by D. D. Delaney

Shakespeare After Shool by D. D. Delaney

The Tempest by Gillette Elvtren