4/6/2024 0 Comments Five minute play scripts![]() ![]() Plays such as “The Sibling” by Jeanmarie Collins are nice, even important for letting young readers know that others might have similar issues, and Collins writes a tight, poignant script. This is precisely the sort of short play that could easily get students who might normally enjoy theatre into reading, watching, or even being in a play. “Rainbow Bunnies in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Bennet Preuss was strangely stupid but fun. I would love to see this done or direct it myself sometime. The short play pushes stereotypes to the edge, adds plenty of humor and a resolve of understanding that is often missing in a short play like this. ![]() One of my favorites was “Over the Moon” by Lavinia Roberts in which a perfectionist male teen is trying to tutor an artsy female student who is planning to turn in her science paper as an interpretive dance. Most are two or three person plays so it would be easy to even sit and read these out loud with a friend or two.Īs is typical with almost any anthology, not every script appealed to me, but there were plenty of them that did. The plays in this anthology have a wide range of topics and all of them relate-able to the teen reading audience. And if you are a student or a younger reader, finding plays that are targeted to you is next to impossible without buying individual scripts directly from play publishers.ĥ-Minute Plays for Teens is just the ticket! But for those of us who enjoy reading plays, it can be difficult to find reading material that isn’t one of the classics that we’ve all already read a dozen times, or not the latest Pulitzer Prize winner. There is a special knack to reading plays and unless you are used to it, it can be frustrating. ![]()
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