Funny Readers Theater Scripts Middle School

10-Minute

10 Minute Play Scripts

Ten Minute Play Scripts have become increasingly popular with directors to put together an evening of short plays .

Find ten-minute comedies, ten-minute dramas , 10-minute dramedies, 10-minute scripts for interpretation, scripts for flash drama. Popular scripts feature 10 minute Monologues from the Bible New Testament and Old Testament, Short skits for Seniors. Instant printable PDF on purchase.

Some benefits of an evening of Ten Minute Plays are:
• More actors can participate taking major roles, without one or two leading actors having the responsibility of carrying an entire show.
• Rehearsals can be arranged for shorter periods to suit smaller groups.
• Minimal staging/set – less design and stage management work involved.
• Increased ticket sales and revenue – theatres can schedule weekday performances.

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A Dish Best Served Cold – A Revenge Fantasy in 10 Minutes

by Jean H. Klein
- 10 minutes
- 2M; Max/Min 2
Auditions, Classroom Use, Mental Health Issues, 2-Character, Colleges, Competitions, Highly Theatrrical

A man is lied to when he volunteers for a psychological experiment on the role of pain in learning. His experience leaves him scarred. Twenty years later, he confronts the psychologist who conducted the experiment. To inflict revenge? T0 get an apology? Does he even know why? Do we?

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$7.97 – $35.00
Off Our Rockers

by Pamela Munson Steadman
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 9 M / 1 - 9 F/ Doubling Possible
Seniors, Variable Length, Collection, Colleges, Comedy, Flexible Casting, Small Cast

This collection of madcap 10-minute comedies appeals to everyone from teens to seniors. Casts include elves, grumpy homophobic neighbors, and a troupe of historical characters come to life.

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$10.98 – $75.00
Monsters

by Chris Bullard
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1-6M; 1F; Min 1, Max 7
Auditions, Monologue, Poetic Drama, Variable Length, Bare Stage, Collection, Highly Theatrrical, Reader's Theater

Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas.

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$10.80 – $79.98
Digital Disturbances-Three 10-Minute Comedies of Modern Technology

by Bonnie Culver
- 10 - 30 minutes
- 3M/2F Max 5/Min 3
Farce, Aging, Bare Stage, Collection, Colleges, Comedy, Community, Doubling Possible, High School

Who hasn't struggled with expanding technology? In these three 10-minute comedies, cell phones disrupt lives to uncover a serial philander, a GPS unit miraculously provides comfort to a widower, and Everyman seeks, in vain, a Representative!

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$9.97 – $60.00
The Yellow Brick Road Trip

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 minutes
- 1M / 3F 4 Max/Min
Fable, Fairy Tale, Farce, Community

A very different Dorothy lands in Oz to find some romantic interest from one of the Munchkins and a conflict over language and meaning from the Good Witch.

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$6.97 – $30.00
Original Relocation

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
Fable, Farce, 2-Character, Bare Stage, Comedy

Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.

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$6.97 – $29.95
Numbers Have Feelings

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 minutes
- 1M/4M or F
Fable, Farce, Young Audience, Fantasy, Middle School

What if numbers could feel? Does a number feel diminished when it is subtracted? Originally written for a math-tutoring business open house, this short script is perfect as a classroom or meeting diversion.

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$6.97 – $39.79
Doctoring Justice

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 minutes
- 2M/1F/1M or F
Comedy, High School, Simple Set, Small Cast

A man commits triple murder and his lawyer is stricken with guilt at the realization that "success" means his client will get three meals a day and cable TV for the rest of his life.

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$6.97 – $29.45
Ten After Ten: Ten 10-Minute Comedies

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 2 M/F - 20+ M/ F Doubling possible
Classroom Use, Farce, Seniors, Collection, Comedy

In Ten After Ten, Jack J. Berry uses unique settings to highlight current problems and issues. These short comedies can be performed as a single evening or used separately as part of a larger presentation to underscore a point. Excellent for classroom, church, or senior facility.

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$9.97 – $69.95
A Pastor's Tale – The True Story of Silent Night

by Todd Conner
- 15 minutes
- 1 - 5F; 2-7M; Max 7; Min 7
Comedy, Simple Props, Teens

A one-act Christmas comedy – a play with live music for young actors, telling the story of how the Christmas song "Silent Night" came to be written. Set in Oberndorf, Austria in 1818, the play is staged with live guitar in a Readers Theatre format. Memorized historical vignettes are combined with a straight-forward Christmas reading. But it soon goes "off-book" as student readers question the truth of the text they're reading, and they end up squabbling on stage among themselves. Just when their performance seems doomed, Josef Mohr remembers a short poem he had been writing—Silent Night.

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$7.97 – $55.98
The Trunk

by L. Elizabeth Powers
- 15 minutes
- 2 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
Competitions, Fantasy, Simple Set, Small Cast

A man is about to board a mysterious train when he is stopped because of the size of his luggage. What is in his trunk that he is so reluctant to part with? And where is the train going? In this 15-minute play, L. Elizabeth Powers bears witness to the fact that it's never too late to take a different path.

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$6.97 – $48.00
Short Plays for Long Lives

by Ed Friedman
- 10 - 60 minutes
Collection, Doubling Possible, Flexible Casting

A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors. They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group. These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.

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$7.95 – $40.00
Inside and Out

by Jean H. Klein
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female. 1 M or F. Max 3, Min 3
Competitions, Fantasy, Simple Set

This 10-minute poetic play dramatizes a mother's attempt to reach inside the autistic mind of her young son. Characters include Jonah, the boy, his mother, Jonah's mind. The play is a great change of pace in an evening of short plays and as an introduction to discussion groups and classes in social work and mental health settings.

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$7.99 – $30.00
Going to the Dogs

by Pamela Munson Steadman
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 2 Females, Max/Min cast 3
Competitions, Simple Set

In this 10-Minute original farce, a free-thinking retired woman, Sylvia, discovers that her deceased husband has been reincarnated as her dog. A surreal and hilarious Fantasy/Comedy by Pamela Steadman. Acting script.

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$6.97 – $17.99
Cell

by Bonnie Culver
- 15 minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females
Bare Stage, Comedy

Cell, a 10-minute comedy for 4 actors, takes us inside connecting and disconnecting calls among 4 different cell phone users. Each looking for answers to the central problems in their lives with hilarious results.

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$5.00 – $40.00
Shorts for All Seasons: America Revisited
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max 6 Min 2
Flexible Casting, Simple Set

A collection of six 10-minute satires – plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed.

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$13.95