Theater scripts and plays for children and young people
Plays for young people, plays for children, scripts for youth theatre and drama. Quality plays for students. A variety of play scripts suitable for performance by students in auditions, school productions, drama festivals / competitions / eisteddfods or by both adult / student actors in theatres.

Jigsaw Puzzle - great stage play for kids

ISBN 0 9578809 2 8

ATTENTION EARTHLINGS!!! A very puzzling mystery began today at sleepy Paradise Cove when seventeen surfers saw smelly, local youth, Stinker, sucked up by  a UFO.  Local eccentric Lucy Shawl and her fourteen year old niece Alice say, "DON'T PANIC! - aliens  are coming but they mean us no harm."  Police are investigating.

Join Aunt Lucy, Alice, Stinker and Constable Sniff in Jigsaw Puzzle, a fun play of mystery and intrigue.

Suitable for performance by children / students aged 9 and upwards. Also suitable for performance by adults for children.

More information...cast size, set, sample dialogues, cost etc.


The Shadow Boy - a great fun play for students to perform

LARGE CAST

Meet Billy.  Billy is frightened of shadows.  Especially the shadow at his feet, the one that follows him around and haunts his every step. Who is this shadow and what does it want?  Follow Billy on his comical and moving adventure as he learns about himself, life and the secret of his shadow. Also meet Billy's mum, Bridget the Bruiser, a bank robber...plus many, many others.

Adapted from the original for use with students for class reading & school performance. Ideal for teachers seeking a play for young people that has a large cast and provides roles for a range of talents. Employs mime & role play and offers fun opportunities for vocal work. Has a tight, dramatic structure and a strong, intriguing narrative.

Suitable for performance by children / students aged 9 and upwards.

More information...cast size, set, sample dialogues, cost, etc

A fun play for kids - Rats!

ISBN 0 9578809 3 6

Gasp, eek, shock and horror!  Warning - dramatic rats at large!

See, as Daddy Rat, Mummy Rat and Sonny Rat have their very agreeable lives upset by Rebel Rat, Mauler the Cat and the sinister new Science Teacher.

Set in a rat's cage in a school science laboratory "Rats!" is a satirical look at humans as revealed through the antics of a family of rats. Issues include racism, chauvinism, bullying, anti-vivisection and fear of freedom.

A funny, energetic and thought provoking play.

Suitable for performance by children / students aged 9 and upwards.

Also suitable for performance by adults for children.

More information...cast size, set, sample dialogues, cost etc.


A great play for kids

"A Rat's Tale" is the sequel to "Rats!", although it stands independently as a play. The rat family, having escaped the horrors of the school science laboratory, have landed in a rat utopia called "Freedom". But "Freedom" is not what it used to be. Freedom is living through troublesome times  - teenage gangs and lawlessness reign, while a plot is hatched by the villianous Dirty Rat to take over the place. A play within a play, join our hero Sonny Rat and his family of actor rats as they perform their cautionary tale of the Troubles and the destruction of Freedom.
 
"A Rat's Tale", like its predecessor, is very high energy, physical, knockabout comedy and good fun for audience and actors alike. It can be performed professionally by actors in a theatre or by students in a school situation.

Suitable for performance by children / students aged 9 and upwards.

Also suitable for performance by adults for children.

More information...cast size, set, sample dialogues, cost, etc.


Adventure at Whaler's Bay - good theatre piece for children

 ISBN 0 9578809 1 X

A boatshed fire; a pack of mysterious killer whales that haunt the bay;  an embittered, bereaved  father; a mother's ghost; a high-spirited daughter who refuses to become a lady; a son who hates the cruelty of whaling and dislikes the sight of blood; a clairvoyant old woman; a shadowy, sinister stranger and a bumbling police sergeant - these are some of the ingredients that make "Adventure at Whalers Bay" such enthralling entertainment in the Enid Blyton tradition.

"Adventure at Whalers Bay" is set in the early 1900's in a small bay whaling town, based on Eden, News South Wales, where for more than a century real killer whales aided and abetted humans to herd and hunt whales.  With its moody seaside atmosphere and strong evocation of a bygone era, "Adventure at Whalers Bay" is a rattling good yarn of mystery and revenge.

Suitable for theatre production.

More information...cast size, set, sample dialogues, cost, etc.


Kamikaze Kate - A great play for children to perform; good scenes for drama competitions

ISBN 0 87129 055 3

ISBN 0 86819 243 0

Kamikaze Kate has been performed by professional actors for general audiences and by students in school productions in Australia and the USA. It is entertaining and easy to stage and makes an ideal choice for teachers seeking a text for their students to perform in drama festivals and/or school productions.

Kamikaze Kate (and the Sword of Captain Kuroda) by JOHN SUMMONS is a lively, anti-war play in which schoolgirl Kate, a girl who loves war, finds the ghost of a Japanese soldier hiding under her bed.

TITLE: Kamikaze Kate

TYPE: One act play

CAST SIZE: 6 actors (mixed gender)

Can be performed by 4 actors (doubling) if required

PERFORMER'S AGE: Suitable for performance by children / students aged 9 and upwards.

TARGET AUDIENCE: 5 - 12 year olds

PRODUCTION SUITABILITY: Suitable for both theatre and school productions.

RUNNING TIME: approx. 45 - 50 mins

This play is not available from this website. The play can be purchased NOW from the following sources:
Dramatic Publishing Company (USA)*
Currency Press (Australia)
Amazon Books

*USA and Canada - purchase of script and licence for performance is available from the Dramatic Publising Company

Kamikaze Kate is on the following list of approved performance texts in USA:
University Interscholastic League


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