non musical plays for high school


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Through a series of connected scenes and monologues, join different characters on their journey as they discover whether the monster under the bed is real and collectively wonder...is there anybody out there?

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From popular one-acts to award-winning full-length plays and musicals, Playscripts has hundreds of titles for high school theatre programs. See Streaming Details below for more information.

It's a great choice for teen performers, but it's just as much fun for adult actors. Scroll down to get all the details about the play, read a synopsis and read an excerpt.

Read more, In a fairy-tale kingdom obsessed with pop culture and social media, fairy godmothers are lawyers and the Three Little Pig-arazzi chase celebrities. to the official website of High School (non) Musical, the hit parody of the Disney sensation. Read more, Inspired by interviews with teens about their online lives, This Is Your Brain on Social Media takes on both social-media madness and the grown-up hysteria over kids these days. Unforgettable human stories make the era immediate in this captivating ensemble drama. The Controversy Around School Plays . Read more, In this modern adaptation of the Greek classic Antigone, a rebellious high school student named Alice must respond to the sudden and shattering death of her older brother.

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'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - Study Guide, 3 Music-Based Improv Games for Young Actors, Psy.D., Organizational Psychology, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, B.A., History and Literature, Harvard University. For full-length plays, these plays rounded out the top five: In the musical category, "Beauty and the Beast" climbed to the top, edging out last year's favorite. Literary Definition and Examples, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Themes, Symbols, and Literary Devices. Read more, This zany comedy skewers the online animosity between liberals and conservatives with a little help from Shakespeare. She obsesses about awkward interactions in the past, she tries to predict the disasters of the future - and then, of course, there's three immortal witches sabotaging her drama club production of Macbeth so they can escape the mortal realm.

Who killed Mysterious Host? But when Cinderella leaves her self-absorbed prince and winds up in jail with an unlikely girl squad, she doesn't just cause a sensation--she starts a revolution... Read more, These days, it feels like the end of the world could happen any minute. But when they discover that Gaberella's singing voice is so bad that it could mass casualties, what will win out--following your dreams, or preserving life as we know it? Read more, What's it like to be awake when the rest of your world is asleep?

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When a reality show swoops in to capture this social experiment on camera, the priorities and moralities of the student body are turned inside-out. As a result, 38% of the time, the play that the teachers had chosen was ultimately not produced. The production can feature creative costumes for the woodland creatures.

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Read more, From a cyberbullying attack that puts a friendship to the test (Dolphin) to a group of former bullies that meets regularly to discuss their recovery (Bullies Anonymous), to a grown man who must confront his former bully at their 20th reunion (Reunited and It Feels So Good), the plays range from the tragic to the comedic, but they all work to reveal a new perspective on a common problem. She obsesses about awkward interactions in the past, she tries to predict the disasters of the future - and then, of course, there's three immortal witches sabotaging her drama club production of Macbeth so they can escape the mortal realm.

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