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Here are all of our Drama and Theatre Scripts from some of the best new writers in theatre today. Browse our scripts for Theatre Groups, Drama Clubs, Schools, Colleges, Professional Theatre, Classroom use and Youth Groups in one place for you to browse, read in full online and download instantly in both PDF and Docx formats. They are all straight dramas with various themes. Length and number of characters can vary so you might find it easier to go here and use the search engine on the right of that page to narrow down your search.
These are Full Length, One-act and Short Form Drama Scripts for Stage.
(Narrow the scripts down by run-time, number of characters etc. by using our search engine. Or to find something completely different!)
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Smoke
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn explosion in a Utah mine in 1893 turns many lives upside down in this dramatic play (4F, 2M)
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About Dad
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageHenry’s father is trying to make amends with his son, from beyond the grave. (5M, 2F)
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Digging the Dirt
£2.99 – £6.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAfter vandals trash an allotment, five affected plot owners reveal more about their personal lives than they would have before. (4F & 1M)
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Tell-tale Heart
£1.99 – £5.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and guilt. (5E)
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Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’
£1.99 – £5.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdgar Allan Poe’s demon cat sends its owner into madness and murder. (2M, 2F, 3E)
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The Ghost Writers
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe ghosts of Coward and Austen help a couple navigate a tricky situation. (4F, 3M)
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Five Ways to Remember
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageFive short plays set during World War I, but not the usual themes. (2F, 2M)
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The Masque of the Red Death
£1.99 – £5.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdgar Allan Poe’s tale of inescapable mortality. (2M, 1F, 2E)
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The Final Curtain
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA faithful and tragic portrayal of family life in England during World War I. (2F, 4M)
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Creating Frankenstein
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe story of Frankenstein and how Mary Shelley created it. (5F, 7M)
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Eager Beavers
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe manager of a ramshackle charity shop re-evaluates her life after the trustees convert it into a boutique called ‘Eager Beavers’ (12F, 3M and 6E)
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Phoebe
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAfter 30 years, a woman meets her biological daughter, having been swapped at birth. (3F)
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Hop-frog
£1.99 – £5.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdgar Allen Poe’s short story about humiliation and revenge. (2M, 1F, 5E)
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An Apple in May
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageConcerning a 19th century pioneer of refrigeration, love, endeavour, industry, Queen Victoria – and an apple. (4F, 14M)
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At the Tabard Inn
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe story of the 29 pilgrims who gather in Chaucer’s Tabard Inn. (58 roles – Doubling possible)
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The Monkey Paw
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn enchanted Monkey Paw causes tragedy with a twist in this one act play. (2M, 1F, 2E) 👂
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Of Hearts and Daggers
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA lost family treasure leads to twists and shock revelations in this mystery drama. (4F, 2M, 3E)
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
£1.99 – £6.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdgar Allen Poe’s short story about the afterlife. (1M, 6E)
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The Ant Farm
£0.99 – £3.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThose who put humans on Earth are back to check on their experiment. (2E)
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Archie the Activist
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page12-year-old Archie finds purpose protesting the destruction of a local park. (6F, 7M, 12E)
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The Fall
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageTelling the story of Adam & Eve’s dalliance with the Forbidden Fruit, The Fall is based on the epic poem Paradise Lost. (8E)
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Held
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA dramatic and authentic portrayal of Mother-Daughter relationships. (4F)
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Murders at Cringing Manor
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThere’s a double murder in disguise to be solved in this comedy mystery (8F, 12M)
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Free Birdie
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn exotic stranger turns a widower’s life upside-down. (2M, 3F)
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The Raven
£0.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdgar Allen Poe’s most famous poem adapted for stage. (1M, 1E)
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The Man in the Moon
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA radio ham accidentally contacts a stranded cosmonaut and makes plans to get him back to earth. (3F, 6M)
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Heroes
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageJamie writes stories of heroes for his best friend Megan but soon realises she is the hero in his own life story (6M, 7F, 2E with doubling)
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
£3.99 – £6.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pagePoe’s detective, Dupin, solves the gruesome murders in the Rue Morgue. (1M, 1F, 4E)
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Big School
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageSix parents face big life choices before their children get into big school. (5F, 1M)
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The Other Woman
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageInfidelity, blackmail and murder abound in this one act drama with a twist. (4F & 1M)
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I Spy – Sherlock Holmes
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageHolmes and Watson suspect Moriarty is up to something sinister. (4M, 3F, 2E)
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A Christmas Carol
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA 1 hour adaptation for stage of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of redemption. (27 adult/child roles)
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Lady Susan: Jane Austen’s Distinguished Flirt
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA scheming aristocrat arrives at the country estate of her dead husband’s brother, eager to ingratiate herself to the family’s favour (5F, 3M)
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Ride North, Odessa
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn American Western re-telling of the Greek Epic ‘The Odyssey’ (11F, 19M – Doubling Possible)
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Right on Time
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn unusual train station turns out to be something decidedly other-worldly. (2F, 2M and 5E)
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If you go down to the woods
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageLove, murder, suicide and bird watching combine in this darkly funny 2-act comedy. (5F, 6M, 2E) 👂
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Shade
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWhat happened to William Hare after the notorious Edinburgh murders? (2F & 3M)
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Out of Bounds
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn all male golf club is being forced to accept female members, with hilarious consequences. (4F, 4M)
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Raven About Poe
£4.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA collection of the scariest, funniest and most entertaining tales by Edgar Allan Poe. (2M, 1F, 10E – 13 roles with doubling)
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Serves Them Right
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA failing restaurant looks to a morally bankrupt celebrity to enhance its reputation, with tragic results. (4F, 5M & 1E)
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Grimstone Halt
£2.99 – £4.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThree TV executives check out a run-down hotel for a new show; they soon discover it’s haunted! (2F, 3M)
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Dark Heart
£4.99 – £14.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageGothic rhyming musical love story featuring Vampires, Witches and Wizards. (6M, 6F, 3E)
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George the Good
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageGeorge Good comes from a bad family, but was he switched at birth? (8F, 8M & 4E)
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Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe story of a factory boy who is at first rescued by a wealthy benefactor but who is later returned to the mills. (13M, 13F (16 actors with doubling))
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Slice of Life
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA local reporter interviews Lucifer who presents her with a moral choice. (4F, 3M, 1E)
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The Thief of Time
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageSuspicion and fear arise when 11 days are lost overnight in this play for all the family. (2M, 1F, 7E)
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The Vote
£3.99 – £8.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe story of Jeannette Rankin’s first term as the US’s first woman to hold federal office. (2M, 3F)
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Preferred Lies
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA Roman archaeological find and a murder threaten the existence of Great Snoring Golf club (5F, 4M & 1E)
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Vanishing Act
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWhen the leader of a group of magicians lies about their big break, trouble is just around the corner. (2F, 2M & 4E)
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Alana Sultana and the Poisoned Banana
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWho poisoned the judge at the world smoothie making championships? All is revealed in this comedy mystery (11F, 13M & 3E)
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Clifden’s Daughter
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAn Irish widow meets with a long lost American relative who turns out not to be related at all. (2F, 4M & optional extras)
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Bountiful Gifts
£4.99 – £9.99 Download This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageCan Rosemary host a successful Thanksgiving for her dysfunctional family? (3M, 6F)
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