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Free adult education performing arts scripts
The Principal's New Clothes - Reader's Theater for the Entire Class!
This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the year. I have also come back to the script at the end of the year to perform in front of
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
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Why Use Drama? Reader's Theater Tips, Strategies, & Teacher's Guide
This informative article provides tips and strategies to make the most of your reader's theater or classroom play activities. "Why Use Drama?" reveals some of the research about how the reader's theater model builds fluency and comprehension. Use it to defend against all the text-book pushers out there! "There's More Than One Way to Produce a Play" maps out six performance/production strategies. "The Delicate Nature of Assessing Drama" offers tips on teaching students to self-assess and discuss
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3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Game: To Kill a King (mystery party package/script)
To Kill a King: Herod Antipas
By Kathy Applebee
Date: 39 A.D. Herod Antipas is throwing a big banquet with fine food, lavish entertainment and a number of unexpected guests. Which one killed him?
Mystery party games are an engaging alternative to studying life in the Roman Empire and make wonderful drama activities. Add spice to Bible classes or youth group activities while immersing everyone in Roman customs of the first century. Acting experience and knowledge of police procedures are no
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Script: The One Item Mystery Dinner Theater Drama
Use as a Reader's Theater or fund raiser for your class or group. Comes complete with 2 scripts and directors notes.
The audience gathers for what they think will be a memorial service for the missionary fondly known as Uncle Buck but ends up trying to save Sadie McCrady (Buck's niece) and themselves from being swindled by the unscrupulous pawnbroker Harry Sneed. Not only must they solve what ONE ITEM Sadie should choose for her inheritance but they must uncover who is the impostor is.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Frankenstein Reader's Theatre Script Preview Mary Shelley -Monologues
Frankenstein Synopsis:As Victor Frankenstein is dying on board a boat, he shares a tale of gruesome terror with sea captain Robert Walton. Victor was able to bring a creature assembled from body parts back to life. Once he realized how destructive his experiment had become, he abandoned the creature and tried to live a normal life with his fiance. The lonely creature seeks out Victor and demands one of two things: a bride or revenge.Included in this Frankenstein Reader's Theatre Unit:38 pages an
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Aesop's Fables - Tortoise and Hare - Script for Classroom or School Performance
This is the first of 5 scripts in a complete show on Aesop's Fables. There are two versions of each script so that they can be run as stand alone shows or interwoven into a complete show. Stand alone pieces are also edited with simpler languages for younger students. I have dedicated a lot of time, love and creative energy to make my work great. If you appreciate this piece, please consider buying the full script for $5. Update: I am now proud to announce the completion of "Aesop's Fables - The
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Aesop's Fables - The Complete Show! (with original music)
Fairy Tales Scripts - Robin Hood - A Performance for Classroom, Stage or Film
This fun and humorous script has everything you need for a short show adapted from the classic fairy tale 'Robin Hood'. It is the first story and part 1 of a 3 part show 'Robin Hood, Jack and the Three Bears'. When combined, the scripts are interwoven to make a complete show with recurring characters and themes of fairness, caring and imagination. The parts are written so that a small troupe of 6 actors can play every role or up to 17 different speaking roles can be assigned separately. Suggesti
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Playwriting Template - Google Docs Version - Professional Manuscript Standard
This document contains a link to a Google Docs version of the professional playwriting manuscript format. This can be used by professionals, higher educational students, and secondary grade levels.
The link will take you to a page that forces you to create a copy of the Google Doc, which will then automatically appear and save in your Google Drive.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Star Wars Reader's Theatre/Radio Play Script -Chapter 9 -online/remote
Check out these other Star Wars Stories:Luke Skywalker: Jedi MasterMy Name is Boba FettSummary:The Imperial Forces, under orders from cruel Darth Vader, hold Princess Leia captive, in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Ben Kenobi, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, along with Wookiee Chewbacca, work together with the companionable droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess, help the Rebel Alliance, and restore freedom and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Script: Writing Mysteries Can Be Murder
Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? Writing Mysteries Can Be Murder is for you!
Based on the novel Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt, Writing Mysteries Can be Murder is a three scene play with dinner occurring between scenes One and Two and dessert between scenes Two and Three. Flexible casting allows you to tailor the show to what you have in terms of actors, set and props or include characters from other Barritt novels. Run time varies but allow
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Game: The Search for Wisdom Drama Activity
Imagine wise King Solomon has sent your group on a mission to find his missing wisdom by interviewing 7 characters who may or may not be telling the whole truth. Groups must use the Bible to discover where wisdom can be found without being duped by the fakes and frauds.
The seven main characters can be played by adults and teens for a camp, VBS or children's activity.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Reader's theater script: Esther - the melodrama & Bible study
A Somewhat Melodramatic reader's theater version of the Old Testament book of Esther broken into 9 scenes. It has 21 roles with doubling possible.
Haman, the villain plots against Esther, our heroine, and her people in this script that brings the Bible to life in a unique manner. An optional Bible study is included.
Reader's theater is an excellent way to improve reading fluency and reading expression. Multiple readings can be authentically done in the name of performance. Understanding ch
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Reader's Theatre Script Chapter 15 Bean's Secret Cider Cellar
Fantastic Mr. Fox Synopsis:Mr. Fox lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by burrowing deep into the ground. The farmers decide to wait outside the hole for the foxes to emerge. Unable to leave the hole and steal food, Mr. Fox and his family begin to starve. Mr. Fox devises a p
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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The Parable of the Sower and the Seeds - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a religious reader's theater intended for a small group of 6 students. Ever wondered what the parable of the Sower and the Seed was about? This will help you understand it! In the script, three of four friends answer an altar call one Sunday. This story is what happens to them after that experience. Cammy did not answer it, Hilton tries for a brief time to do better, Will works to do better but gives up, and Nelson works hard and prays daily to keep working and following what he believes
The Tale of Three Trees - Small Group Religious Reader's Theater
This is a religious reader's theater intended for a small group of 4 students.This script was written for Easter but could be done at any time. In the script, Three trees are standing on a hill and dreaming of what they will be. Each has plans to be important to the world in some way. Years pass and the trees grown and then, one day, they are taken and made into things. The trees become ordinary objects that aren’t anything like what they had planned. They begin to lose sight of their dreams unt
Game: Chariots of Death mystery party game
Chariots of Death (or Herod the Great, Herod the Dead) By Kathy ApplebeeFirst Julius Caesar is murdered and now Herod the Great. Right after the 4th and controversial chariot race. Who killed him? Mystery party games are an engaging alternative to studying life in the Roman Empire and make wonderful drama activities. Add spice to Bible classes or youth group activities while immersing everyone in Roman customs of the first century. Acting experience and knowledge of police procedures are not n
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Game/script: Jake's Dead; Who is in the Will?
Family members fuss as their father's will is about to be read. What secret lurks in the past and threatens to surface? Based on the Genesis account of Joseph, this item can be used as either a mystery party game/activity or a script. It contains instructions, character dossiers for 7-15 players and extras, four scene script and optional extension materials (object lessons, free internet games, discussion questions and prompts).
When Jake Izakson's will is read, long standing family feuds and
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Script: Christ the Servant, Christ the King (Easter)
Christ the Servant, Christ the King
A musical Easter drama for a large cast and choir. Focuses on the servant nature of Christ from the announcement of his birth through his crucifixion, burial and resurrection ending on a triumphant note of glory. Four narrators: Peter, Nicodemus, Salome, Martha. Doubling of cast possible, run time approximately 2 hours.
ZIP file contains .DOC and .PDF versions as well as copyright free .JPEGS of related scripture that can be used with the script or for bul
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Area, Volume, and Perimeter - Oh My! Spanish Math Reader's Theater
This Spanish reader's theater is for a small group of 4 students. In Spanish, it is called 'Perimetro, Área y Volumen – VAMOS!' The idea of this reader's theater is to reinforce the formulas used to find each of the equations as well as to teach and practice the language involved. It is just one more way to tie Spanish, Language Arts, and Math together. Math has a language all its own and it is very important to find ways to practice it. Spanish is also important to practice in as many fun ways
Script: Mystery of the Starlight Sapphire (audience interactive)
FREEBIE! Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? This is it.
The Children's Hospital will get the badly needed new wing once the Starlight Sapphire has been sold to the highest bidder. In all its 2621 years, the gem has never passed hands smoothly but how much of the bizarre history is fact and how much is fantasy? The oddball assortment of buyers includes a washed up actress, foreign dignitaries, a teenage country and western singing sensation, a w
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Script: Genealogy of Jesus (Mother's Day)
This 20 minute, 9 page skit works well for Mother's day or other programs celebrating women. Roles for up to 25 characters. Script highlights the mothers in the genealogy of Christ and how nothing is impossible with God - not widowhood, barrenness or foreign status. FK reading level: 4.2.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Script: From Jerusalem to Jericho: Good Samaritan Interview
Told as a news story, this 6 page script covers to parable of the Good Samaritan and the various reactions of those involved to the incident. Based on Luke 10: 25-37, 9 characters with some doubling possible, run time of 12-15 minutes depending on audience interaction. FK reading level: 4.2
Discusses the differing philosophies of life from What's yours is mine and I'm going to take it to what's mine is yours because it's all from God. Can be done with puppets, people or as a reader's theate
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3rd - 10th, Adult Education
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Grimm and Friends - Happy Wife, Happy Life
Grimm and Friends is a collection of comedic scenes for student actors from Middle School to Adults by published author and teacher, Jan Ewen, author of Sci-fi Scenes and Monster Dreams and Fractured Fairy Tales for Student Actors. "Happy Wife, Happy Life" takes the Grimm's Fairy Tale, The Fisherman and His Wife, and gives it comedic flair, creating a great vehicle for student actors!Enjoy all the Grimm and Friends scripts! Performance tested by young actors and adult actors. Use these scripts f
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Jumanji Reader's Theatre Script Preview: Chapter 13 -Adventure
Sarah Whittle“They grow much faster than bamboo. Take care or they will come after you.”Bits of plaster started to fall on the game board. Everyone looked up at the ceiling where the green tendril of a vine forced its way through a crack in the plaster.Sarah WhittleDon’t let this be happening! Peter looked around the room. Small vines had started to push out from behind pictures, from between sofa cushions, and out of the electrical sockets. Everyone backed into the center of the room.Alan Parri
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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