COMEDIES FOR SCHOOLS

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Written by: Various Authors Running time: 110 - 130 minutes Cast: HM; 8F, 8M, 14 either (16-55 actors possible)

This collection of ten-minute plays is designed to be flexible for your trip through the fourth dimension. When you find yourself fighting with your friends on the night before the Constitution is due, listening in at a telephone switchboard in the 1940s, trying to avoid the more gruesome aspects of medieval times, or exploring a mysterious possible future, only one thing is certain: there’s humor in human nature.

Written by: Jason Pizzarello, Patrick Greene Running time: 75 - 90 minutes Cast: HM; 10F, 10M, 10 either (10-80 actors possible)

Travel around the world and explore forgotten myths and unusual legends with a band of players to guide you through these eight quirky, hilarious tales.

Written by: Ian McWethy Running time: 35 - 45 minutes Cast: HM; 7F, 7M, 1 either (11-31 actors possible)

Someone is in enormous trouble for breaking the priceless heirloom vase in the Peterson living room. But who? Each suspect’s account is is more outlandish than the last, from warring siblings Fred and Kelly, to their deeply weird friends Barney and Ava, to the family dog. But the truth? The truth is more slippery...

Written by: Ed Monk Running time: 45 - 65 minutes Cast: M; 6F, 4M, 16 either (12-31 actors possible)

It’s Dad’s turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative: a prince with a snoring problem spices up The Princess and The Pea, The Boy Who Cried Wolf cries dinosaur instead, and Rumpelstiltskin helps turn all that pesky gold into straw. You may think you know your fairy tales, but not the way Dad tells them.

Adapted by: Steph Deferie Running time: 60-70 minutes Cast: HM; 3F, 2M (5-43 actors possible)

This lightning-paced rundown of Shakespeare’s classics features zombies, talking cows, and an appearance by Jerry Springer. The most fun you can have winning new fans of the Bard.

Written by: Dean O’Carroll Running time: 65 - 85 minutes Cast: HM; 6F, 4M, 10 either (20-60 actors possible)

A group of heroes must work as a team to defeat the evil Thanikopita with help from friends and fans in this silly and loving homage to everything Marvelous.

Written by: Don Zolidis Running time: 80 - 90 minutes Cast: HM; 4F, 4F, 12 either (20-50 actors possible)

When Archer finds herself a captive audience for her dad’s latest masterpiece, it seems pretty familiar for a fantasy adventure screenplay at first. Wars, in the stars. Brides, of the princess variety. This story’s got such an incredibly absurd array of heroes, villains, robots, and romances, it’s total chaos.

Written by: Mora V. Harris Running time: 80 - 90 minutes Cast: H; 5F, 1M, 1 either (7-11 actors possible)

Arugula Suarez just wants to fit in. But it’s not easy when you’re a sixteen-year-old alien from the planet Zlagdor. Stuck in a world where the only things that make sense are roller derby and salad, Arugula and her father, Nancy, must find out what it means to be human before time runs out for Planet Earth.

Written by: Ian McWethy & Carrie McCrossen Running time: 30 - 40 minutes Cast: HM; 11F, 5M, 7 either (6-30 actors possible)

At a school intervention for social-media obsessed students, the ultra-righteous Amanda Boseman arrives armed with an array of cautionary tales. This comedy inspired by interviews with teens, takes on both social-media madness and the grown-up hysteria about kids these days.

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