Full-Length Dramas
From award-winning adaptations to riveting original plays, Stage Partners has an exciting collection of contemporary full-length dramas for every stage - from high schools and middle schools to community and professional theatres.
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Persephone (a new myth for a hotter world)
Length: 90 minutesCast Size: 6-20 actors (suggested casting: 6F, 6M)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
The goddess Demeter refuses to be satisfied with winters without her daughter. Why should Persephone spend half her time in the underworld with Hades? She enlists Jane, a sacrificed human caught between the whims of gods, to drill down to the underworld. But what does Persephone herself want? What happens to the humans if their own technology destroys the balance between seasons? Who will be sacri... -
I Am Frankenstein
Length: 90 minutesCast Size: 10-25 actors (suggested casting: 3F, 4M, 6 any)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
I Am Frankenstein unearths two creatures who were tortured and abandoned by their makers: Victor’s famous monster, and the teenage writer Mary Shelley herself. A highly theatrical retelling of Shelley's classic, the play adds two principal characters: a haunting chorus known as The Blackbirds, and the troubled Mary Shelley, the story’s creative force. Victor, a promising student obsessed with... -
You Cannot Undo This Action
Length: 100-120 minutesCast Size: 16-30+ actors (suggested casting: 7F, 5M, 10 any)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
The populations of two high schools are thrown into disarray after a careless social media post leads to real life tragedy. Some of the students are jolted into fear as they reckon with how deep and wide their vulnerabilities have become in our hyper-connected world, while others wrestle with their culpability in the incident. Meanwhile those most affected seek a path toward justice, but how far w... -
Northview High School Will Shelter You (If We Must)
Length: 90 minutesCast Size: 11 actors (suggested casting: 7F, 3M, 1 any)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
In the aftermath of a horrific shooting at a neighboring high school, a group of students is asked to welcome their rivals into their school for the remainder of the year. Over FaceTime and Instagram Live, students from both schools struggle to navigate trauma and grief amidst group projects, student council meetings, and planning for prom. As their preconceptions about each other gradually begin... -
The After
Length: 70-85 minutesCast Size: 14-30 actors (suggested casting: 8F, 4M, 8 any)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
One bright, blue fall afternoon a shooter walks in Three Roads High School and kills five students and two adults. During the shooting, students in one section of the school put up a makeshift barrier of desks, chairs, music stands -- and a photo of the wall goes viral. In the hours, weeks and months after the wake of another tragedy, students and teachers deal with grief, the media frenzy and unc...