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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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The Other Woman
From £2.99 More Info 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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An Apple in May
From £4.99 More Info 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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About Dad
From £3.99 More Info 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
From £2.99 More Info 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
From £1.99 More Info 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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The Vote
From £3.99 More Info 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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The Monkey Paw
From £3.99 More Info 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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Blood
From £1.99 More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageA mortal visits a hotel inhabited and run by vampires in this short drama with a twist (3F)
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At the Tabard Inn
From £4.99 More Info 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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Phoebe
From £2.99 More Info 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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The Final Curtain
From £4.99 More Info 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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Held
From £4.99 More Info 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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Heroes
From £4.99 More Info 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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Serves Them Right
From £4.99 More Info 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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Eager Beavers
From £4.99 More Info 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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Free Birdie
From £3.99 More Info 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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Bountiful Gifts
From £4.99 More Info 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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George the Good
From £4.99 More Info 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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Ride North, Odessa
From £3.99 More Info 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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The Ant Farm
From £0.99 More Info 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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Slice of Life
From £3.99 More Info 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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If you go down to the woods
From £4.99 More Info 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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Dark Heart
From £4.99 More Info 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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Archie the Activist
From £2.99 More Info 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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Raven About Poe
From £4.99 More Info 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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Lady Susan: Jane Austen’s Distinguished Flirt
From £4.99 More Info 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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Hop-frog
From £1.99 More Info 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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The Raven
From £0.99 More Info 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 Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
From £0.99 More Info 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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Big School
From £4.99 More Info 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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Double Blind
From £1.99 More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageBoth participants in a blind date try to get out of the arrangement with an unexpected twist. (3F, 3M)
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The Fall
From £2.99 More Info 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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Murders at Cringing Manor
From £4.99 More Info 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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The Ghost Writers
From £2.99 More Info 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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Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’
From £1.99 More Info 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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A Christmas Carol
From £4.99 More Info 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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Grimstone Halt
From £2.99 More Info 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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Preferred Lies
From £4.99 More Info 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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Smoke
From £3.99 More Info 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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Right on Time
From £2.99 More Info 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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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
From £3.99 More Info 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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Of Hearts and Daggers
From £4.99 More Info 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 Masque of the Red Death
From £1.99 More Info 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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Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy
From £4.99 More Info 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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Dr. Watson – The Final Letter
From £4.99 More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageSherlock Holmes is dead – Dr. Watson must take on the next case under the pretence that the famous Detective has survived (5F & 4M)
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Shade
From £2.99 More Info 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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Clifden’s Daughter
From £4.99 More Info 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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Alana Sultana and the Poisoned Banana
From £4.99 More Info 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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Creating Frankenstein
From £4.99 More Info 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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Five Ways to Remember
From £4.99 More Info 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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I Spy – Sherlock Holmes
From £2.99 More Info 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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Out of Bounds
From £4.99 More Info 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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Vanishing Act
From £4.99 More Info 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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The Man in the Moon
From £2.99 More Info 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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The Thief of Time
From £3.99 More Info 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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