Plays for kids
A selection of drama scripts designed for school plays, youth theatre and anywhere else children and teenagers get to grips with plays
Plays for kidsA selection of drama scripts designed for school plays, youth theatre and anywhere else children and teenagers get to grips with plays |
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| The play scripts listed here are designed to be acted by young people, whether as school plays, in youth theatre
(or youth theater, if you use American English), in drama workshops or as a part of other youth activities. |
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Find the right play script for your group We have hundreds of specially written school plays, plus others written for adults but within the capabilities of some children's drama groups. We therefore offer lots of ways of narrowing down the search for the scripts that will suit you group. All the plays can be read in full on the Internet. Click on any of the underlined text to see descriptions of the plays in your chosen category (from where you will find links to the on-line text)... | |||
| See the Full List of Plays Written for Children | Search for a play to suit your group of kids | ||
| All our plays written for children sorted alphabetically by title. (This does not include plays written for adults which could also be performed by kids.) |
The
search engine
allows you to select a script by number of characters, length
of play, age of participants,
genre and lots more! Caution: the above link takes you to plays written specifically for children. There are many plays missing from the list because they were not written for kids, but which are suitable for performance by youth groups - particularly teenagers. To include those in your search, use the full play script search engine. | ||
| Plays sorted by Age-Group | Plays for Kids, sorted by (our estimate of) Run-Time | ||
| Suitable for Performers Aged <5 | Shorter than ten minutes | ||
| Suitable for Performers Aged 5-8 | Ten to twenty minutes | ||
| Suitable for Performers Aged 9-12 | Twenty to thirty minutes | ||
| Suitable for Performers Aged 13-16 | Thirty to forty-five minutes | ||
| Disclaimer: The age ranges are our opinion, just because we think a script will suit a particular age group it does not mean that it will suit your group. For that reason, we suggest that you read the on-line text of the plays that grab your interest. | Forty-five to sixty minutes | ||
| Longer than sixty minutes | |||
| School Plays | Readers' Theatre | ||
| The School Plays are generally plays with large casts, intended for performance by a full class (sometimes even larger!) | These scripts could be used as plays, but also function as "group readers", to be read aloud with each member of the group taking a role. | ||
| Plays with Educational Themes | Plays with Historical Subjects | ||
| (Select all educational plays or the specific topics listed...) | Ancient Civilizations - Greeks (including Greek Myths), Egyptians, Romans | ||
| Introductions to Shakespeare | Anglo Saxons, Vikings | ||
| Plays about Bullying | Normans | ||
| Plays about Ecological (Green) Issues | Tudors | ||
| The Olympic Games | Victorians | ||
| World War 2, the rest of the Twentieth Century | |||
| Christmas Plays for Kids | Plays for Children with Religious/Moral Themes | ||
| Most of the Christmas plays have some religious element (on the grounds that it's a Christian festival!) although a few remain resolutely secular. | These a dramas based on Old Testament Stories, New Testament Stories, "Christian Commentaries" (plays with religious themes, but not based on any specific text) and other moral plays. | ||
| Pantomimes for Kids | Rhyming Plays for Children | ||
| These include school pantomimes (specifically written for school-age children and generally no longer than an hour), (short) rhyming pantomimes and longer pantomimes that are within the range of (some) school-age groups. | The ryhyming plays include some plays with educational value (some of them in a mix of rhyme and prose), rhyming drama just for fun, and, of course, the rhyming pantomimes. | ||
| Other things! | Plays in Foreign Languages | ||
| There's a pack of 20 "starting points for improvisation", collectively called "Beginnings". You can find the pack on our Goodies page, where there are also plenty of less serious items, including the spoof fairytale advertisements and the pantomime fun packs. |
These are either completely in a foreign language or have English passages for
clarity. Plays in Latin Plays in French Plays in German Plays in Afrikaans | ||