Performance Notes: Find the stakes of this scene. In fact, they most certainly should be! A Deadly DareĪge Range: 12 – 18 Genre: Comedy Length: 2 mins Synopsis: Two friends egg each other on to complete a dare. Names and pronouns can be changed to reflect the best casting available.
NB: While names and genders are specified in these scripts, we would greatly encourage yourself and your students to look past these and select material that they find themselves drawn to. With the information on the page as a starting point, what can students learn about these characters? How can they build them up and bring them to life? Most importantly, what do these characters want? Either as a preceding exercise, or something you utilise with one of these scripts when working in a class, we recommend exploring our article on script analysis with your pupils. Have your students pay close attention to the stage directions, but encourage them to imagine the world and the blocking of the scene beyond that. Unlike a screenplay, which is decked out with all sorts of visual information, there is relatively little on the page for actors to draw from. These scripts utilise StageMilk’s in-house formatting style, which is designed to make the scripts easy to read. Buy the playwright’s work online if you can, talk to your HOD about investing in local material or patronising a nearby theatre company. But let us take this opportunity to say when it comes to written material for classes: pay it forward when you can. One of the reasons StageMilk is eager to provide this resource is to support drama teachers-to whom all of us in this industry owe our livelihoods and passions. It takes a great deal of effort and consideration from a writer, only to see it used for free with little consideration as to their long-term wellbeing. The reason it’s hard to find copyright-free scripts is because writing is hard and it’s not worth nothin’.
Now, with the above gripe around finding free material out of the way, I’m going to step out of teacher role and into that of a playwright. So keep checking in for new scripts on the regular! Copyright-Free Scripts One last thing: as with all of our free script resources on StageMilk (listed at the bottom of this article), this page will be updated periodically with fresh material. These scenes for young actors would be ideal for scene study, script analysis or even for use in a showcase. They carry some age guidelines and content warnings, but may be useful for groups beyond these classifications based on the skill level and maturity of your pupils. These scenes sit across the comedy and drama genres, and would be perfect for teenage actors in drama classes. This article contains a list of free, original practice scenes for young actors. You know what you’re looking for-at the very least, you’ll know it when you see it! But finding scenes for young actors often finds you scrolling through typo-ridden film and tv transcripts online, butting up against subscription paywalls, or hitting up that dusty shelf in your drama classroom for a dog-eared copy of The Real Inspector Hound (no shade to Mr. Speaking as a teacher of young actors, I know how ridiculously hard it can be to find good material for them to learn and perform in drama classes.