Best Plays for Elementary School
Elementary schools, camps, and after-school programs can’t go wrong with a play from Pioneer Drama Service! From short 20-minute plays to 90-minute full lengths and everything in between, we offer an incredibly broad range of elementary school plays, including comedies, mysteries, traditional literary and fairy tale adaptations, funny fractured fairy tales, Christmas plays, and melodramas. Pioneer Drama Service is especially proud to be the sole source for the only stage version of the international best-selling Rainbow Fish. Whether you’re doing Rainbow Fish or any of our 270 other elementary school plays, the sets and costumes are designed to be as simple or as complex as your budget and talent allows. Most of our plays for elementary students also have a very flexible cast size and we allow you to change the gender of the characters, making it easy to find the best elementary school play to fit your cast!These are the 20 best-selling plays for elementary schools from Pioneer Drama Service.
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The Enchanted Bookshop
Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (8M, 9F, plus 6 roles that can be any)
Set/Time: Interior bookshop set / About 60 minutes During the day, A Likely Story may look like any other used bookstore. But at night, it’s a place where magic happens. More... |
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Complaint Department and Lemonade
Cast: Flexible cast of 3-15
Set/Time: Interior office set / About 40 minutes With extremely simple production needs, this fun and fast-paced one act can be performed just about anywhere and is a clever contest piece. More... |
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Big Bad
Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (3M, 5F, plus 6 roles that can be any)
Set/Time: Interior courtroom set / About 45 minutes The most notorious criminal in the fairy-tale world, Big Bad Wolf, is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by the countless quirky characters he has wronged. More... |
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North Pole’s Got Talent
Cast: Flexible cast of 15-28 (2M, 3F, plus 10-23 roles that can be any), optional extras
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 25 minutes It’s just days before Christmas at Santa’s Workshop, and there’s still lots of work to be done — like getting the elves and reindeer in the proper holiday spirit with song, dance, and big belly laughs! More... |
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What Happened After Once Upon a Time
Cast: Flexible Cast of 17-24
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 50 minutes What really happened after “once upon a time”? You’ll find out in this fun, large-cast, simple-to-stage fractured fairy tale! More... |
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The Fairy Tale Network
Cast: Flexible cast of 18 (3M, 4F, plus 11 roles that can be any), extras
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 30 minutes This hilarious play is wonderfully easy to produce with loads of humor for both kids and their parents. More... |
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Folk Tails
Animal stories from around the world
Cast: Flexible cast of 6 to 39
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 30 minutes There’s something for everyone in these delightful stories, told by six storytellers who narrate each tale while other actors don simple animal costumes onstage to act out the short scenes. More... |
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Order Up!
Cast: Flexible cast of 7-16
Set/Time: Interior fast food counter set / About 50 minutes With extremely simple production needs, this fun and fast-paced one act can be performed just about anywhere and is a clever contest piece. More... |
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Christmas Shorts
Cast: Flexible cast of 12-65
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 60 minutes There’s something for everyone in this one-act holiday delight made up of short scenes and monologues. More... |
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What Could Go Wrong the Night Before Christmas?
Cast: Flexible cast of 11
Set/Time: Simple interior sets / About 20 minutes A host attempts to do a lovely reading of The Night Before Christmas but is stymied by every imaginable interruption. This delightful show for young actors is quick and simple to produce for the Christmas season! More... |
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