Looking for short play scripts?
Here are all of our Short Play 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're all less than one act in length. 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 the page to narrow down your search.
These are Short Play Scripts with various themes.
(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 Raven
£ 0.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsEdgar Allen Poe’s most famous poem adapted for stage. (1M, 1E)
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The Errand Boy
£ 0.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsSet in the 1820s, a tale of the meeting between a political giant and a literary legend. (1F, 2M)
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsShort play for kids based on the famous fairy tale. (1M, 2F, 2E)
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The Insurance Salesman
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsAn insurance company are selling something unusual and deadly. (2E)
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Tell-tale Heart
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsEdgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and guilt. (5E)
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The Masque of the Red Death
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsEdgar Allan Poe’s tale of inescapable mortality. (2M, 1F, 2E)
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
£ 1.99 – £ 6.99 Select optionsEdgar Allen Poe’s short story about the afterlife. (1M, 6E)
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The Angel of the Odd
£ 1.99 – £ 6.99 Select optionsEdgar Allen Poe’s comedy about chaos and unfortunate events. (1M, 2F, 2E)
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Hop-frog
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsEdgar Allen Poe’s short story about humiliation and revenge. (2M, 1F, 5E)
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Green Grows the Garden
£ 1.99 – £ 6.99 Select optionsAccused of arson, Toby confesses; but is there more to his story? (2M, 1F)
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Ciao for now
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsThe spirit of a murdered detective returns to help catch his killer. (1M, 2F)
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Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsEdgar Allan Poe’s demon cat sends its owner into madness and murder. (2M, 2F, 3E)
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Free Birdie
£ 3.99 – £ 8.99 Select optionsAn exotic stranger turns a widower’s life upside-down. (2M, 3F)
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
£ 3.99 – £ 6.99 Select optionsPoe’s detective, Dupin, solves the gruesome murders in the Rue Morgue. (1M, 1F, 4E)
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