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Topic: School plays

Posted By: Juliet
Subject: School plays
Date Posted: 8/24/05 at 2:03pm

Could you please name some plays that are suitable for a small high school drama club where everyone is cast? We're talking about 40 people, not much budget, and not heavy in the talent department. Thank you!

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Posted By: Sueshoo
Date Posted: 8/24/05 at 2:43pm

Take a look at "Up The Down Staircase" written by Bel Kaufman.

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/catalogdetail.cfm?listcode=U12 - http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/catalogdetail.cfm?listcode =U12

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Susan
Life is not a Dress Rehearsal

Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:11pm

"The Lottery" based on the Shirley Jackson short story

Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 8/25/05 at 10:38am

Are they mostly girls? Take a look at Stage Door. For more balanced casts, look at anything George S. Kaufman wrote or co-wrote. In fact, look at many plays before 1950: typically large casts, no offensive material, often single-set. And YES I know it's done to death, but Our Town would seem to fit your needs pretty well. (That's WHY it's done to death; it fits EVERYBODY's needs pretty well!)

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POB
Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard

Posted By: Juliet
Date Posted: 8/25/05 at 9:59pm

Can you name some really good and appropriate for high school one act plays? thanks!

Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 8/26/05 at 10:14am

Chekhov wrote a number of good small-cast one-acts -- e.g. A Wedding Proposal, The Bear. Look at a couple of translations if you can; some are bad.

You might find some useable stuff among David Ives' work. Some of his plays are VERY short, and some may not be appropriate for your group, but all of them are witty.

And there's always the Neil Simon Suites (Calfornia, Plaza, London, god knows how many now).

They're out there, but you do have to sift through an awful lot of chaff when it comes to one-acts.

The high school where I used to live would let the kids write and direct their own one-acts.

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POB
Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard