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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The Angler’s Catch
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsMelanie catches an enchanted fish who grants her a wish, but does she ask for too much? (1E)
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The Bell Inn
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsThere’s something odd about the Inn in the mist; could it really be frozen in time? (1E)
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The Pardon
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsSet in Victorian times, the Gallows Inn is the scene of an unexpected pardon. (1E)
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The World’s End
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA seed from the tropics causes concern at the World’s End. (1E)
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The Lady in Grey
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA new employee at a supposedly haunted pub sees something in the cellar! (1E)
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The Queen’s Head
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsWhat would you do if Queen Elizabeth I wanted your teeth? (1E)
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The Travellers Rest
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA search for a missing ruby-eyed eagle yields surprising truths for Brother Dominic (1E)
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An Inconvenient Crime
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA burglar turns up with a question… “is it convenient to rob you right now”? (1F, 2M)
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Smee
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA House party on Christmas Eve in the 40s has a ghostly visitor? (6F, 5M)
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The Waiting Room
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA melancholy drama in which a father waits patiently for his family to return because where he is now, it’s the only thing he can do. (1M, 1F, 2E)
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Plastic Funeral
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA group of male accountants hold a funeral with a twist for their female colleague (1F, 1M)
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Super Lunch
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsTwo retired super-heroes meet for lunch and decide to show society that they’re not ‘past-it’ (3E)
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Nuclear Strike
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsThe hero stops an evil villain, but not until contracts are negotiated (1F, 1M and 2E)
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Genius
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA short moral tale about telling the truth (3F)
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The Perfect Couple
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA marriage counselor encounters a couple with an unusually challenging problem: they are too perfect. (3E)
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The Truth Within
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsThe proof of a divine being seems to be someone’s birthday present! (4E)
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Finding Maria
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsWhatever happened to Snow White. We find out as she encounters the Huntsman, many years later. (1F, 1M)
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The Heist
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsFirst-hand account of a plot to obtain unlimited free samples at the Mall food court. (1E)
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Captain and the Jolly Sailors
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA dog discovers a WWII German Spy! (1E or 3E)
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The Body in the Snug
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsAn insurance investigator can’t get a case out of her head (1E or 8E)
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The Fastening Penny
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsTwo agricultural workers have too much of a good time at the hiring fair. (1E or 5E, 1M & 1F)
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The Old Ship
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA new man in the village revisits his past. (1E or 3E, 1M & 1F)
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The Smugglers Rest
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsWith the Revenue Men around, how will the smugglers unload their contraband? (1E or 8E)
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The Ant Farm
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsThose who put humans on Earth are back to check on their experiment. (2E)
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The Goodlands
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsPlans for a new utopian life soon fall apart (3M)
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Keeping Distance
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsAfter receiving a less than friendly message from outer space, a scientist must come up with a reply to save the world. (2E)
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Love Under Construction
£ 0.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsA set-designer interrupts a show, thinking it’s just a rehearsal. (3E)
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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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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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Princess Puffery
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsA conceited princess has lost her charm but a series of adventures help her find it once more. (3M, 4F & 1E)
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Stories from the Snug
£ 1.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsFour short Monologues with mystery, intrigue, deception and magic! (1E)
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More Stories from the Snug
£ 1.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsThree short Monologues with scruples, mistrust and ghosts! (1E)
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Mummers Play
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsA traditional folk play featuring Robin Hood and some odd characters! (6E)
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We’re All Zoomed!
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsAn Amateur Theatre Group meet on-line to plan their new socially distanced season. (3M, 2F & 1E)
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The Antiquities Roadshow
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsSome unusual items are brought to be valued by the Antiquities Roadshow (6F, 2M)
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Mightier than the Sword
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsAfter being challenged to write a story by his father, the son’s fantasy story comes to life. (4M, 2F)
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One Little Snowflake
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsA play to be performed by children with a strong message about global warming (4F, 4M, 20E)
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Further Stories from the Snug
£ 1.99 – £ 3.99 Select optionsFive short Monologues with mystery, intrigue, smugglers and a helpful dog! (1E or 1F, 1M and 5E)
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Linda’s Bagels
£ 1.99 – £ 5.99 Select optionsTalking Bagels help a ‘Horrible Boss’ change her ways. (2F & 1E)
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A Small World Indeed
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsTwo strangers meet without knowing they’re meant to meet in an interview later. (3M)
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Anywhere but Rotherham
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsMargaret arrives at the Pearly Gates in this Angelic tale with a Devilish twist. (2M, 1F)
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Nora’s Ark
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsNora is tasked with building an Ark – a trip to IKEA beckons! (3M, 3F)
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Out of this World
£ 1.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsA select few humans must prevent a race of aliens (who invented chocolate) from taking over earth! (3M, 3F, 2E)
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A Merry Widow or Two
£ 2.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsA widow’s supposedly dead husband turns up and faces a dark twist (4F, 1M)
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At ODDS
£ 2.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsHas a curse left the pages of a play, or is something else causing the unfortunate events at the Ollynsmead and District Dramatic Society? (6F, 1M, 1E)
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High Seas and Misdemeanours 👂
£ 2.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsTwo P.I.’s and three suspects but what was the crime and who has the answers? (1M, 6E) (Audio version) 👂
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One Night Stand
£ 2.99 – £ 4.99 Select optionsA one night stand is ruined by Nick’s nerves, some awkward home-truths and a blocked toilet. (1F, 1M)
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About Dad
£ 3.99 – £ 8.99 Select optionsHenry’s father is trying to make amends with his son, from beyond the grave. (5M, 2F)
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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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Five Ways to Remember
£ 4.99 – £ 9.99 Select optionsFive short plays set during World War I, but not the usual themes. (2F, 2M)
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The Perfect BFF
£ 9.99 – £ 14.99 Select optionsIn this 30-minute musical for schools, a pupil at a new school tries to find a new best friend. (15E or 20E or 30E)
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