Books and Scripts

Here's a free script for one child to perform:
Kids Monologue of the Month

Here are free scripts for 2-3 kids to perform:
Free Scripts for Kids

Scripts listed below are available in ebook format, for perusal reading. Most of the plays listed under Children's Entertainment and Murder Mysteries & More have scripts available. You can also see categorized lists with descriptions on Marian's Author website.

SCRIPTS:
Below are links to reading copies for purchase. (Contact us before you perform a script.)
On Marian's author site, you can find a list and description of available plays.

Music for scripts - the password is at the end of scripts that have original music.

Scripts on Smashwords (several formats):

The Annual Conference of the Genii in Regards to the Peculiar World of Humans: This play for children, based on the Arabian Tales, is about a group of genii who get together each year to discuss and laugh about the behavior of humans. Running Time: 35 minutes. Cast: 3 m. 1 f. 25 Either. Flexible Cast: 16-29+
Boxes: Several groups of children are trying to think of something to do when they come across some boxes on the ground. Running time: 30 minutes Flexible Cast: 21-36+
Everybody Knows That: Princess Ada realizes that everyone knows things that she just doesn't know. So she strikes out to learn for herself. Meanwhile Alexandria Dragon is having the same problem in her town. Running Time: 30 minutes. Cast: 3 m. 6 f. 9 either. Flexible Cast: 18+
Fables: Three fables from around the world are retold in this play - The Grasshopper and the Ants, Armadillos in the Road, and The Foolish Lion and the Clever Rabbit. Running Time: 30 minutes. Cast: 4 m. 4 f. 9 either. Flexible Cast: 17+
Four Fables of Aesop: The North Wind and the Sun, The Tortoise and the Hare, Belling the Cat, The Ants and the Grasshopper. Running time: approx 45 min. Flexible Cast: 7-25.
It Could'a Been: A children’s play with music highlighting three tall tales: Johnny Appleseed, Sal Fink and Febold Feboldson. Johnny loves more than anything to give apple seedlings to passing pioneers. Sal Fink is the daughter of keelboatmen Mike Fink and just as tough and extremely big-hearted. Febold Feboldson is by himself on the great plains of Nebraska and wants neighbors. Running Time: 45 minutes. Cast: 10 m. 9 f. 29 Either. Flexible Cast: 17-48.
Just So, It Happened: Based on Rudyard Kipling's “How the Elephant Got His Trunk” and “How the Camel Got His Hump”, this play has a delightful cast of animals. Running Time: 35 minutes. Cast: 2 m. 2 f. 29 either. Flexible Cast: 14-33+
Three-3-III: In these tales of three, the three pigs must outsmart three wolves; the three billy goats Gruff have three trolls to deal with; and the three bears face Goldilocks and her two sisters. Running time: 40 minutes. Cast: 3 m. 5 f. 22 Either. Flexible Cast: 15-30.
Ruby Lou and the White Gold Saloon: Ruby Lou and the rest of the town only drink White Gold; it’s the best thing west of the Mississippi. A stranger comes to town with Purple Nugget for everyone to try and he won’t take “no” for an answer, even if it means forcing the town to change. Running Time: 35 minutes. Cast: 10m. 15f. (some can be either), Extras. Flexible Cast: 18-25+

Treasure Island, A Stage Play for Children: Poly-Narrator, a character in the play, says it all: “This here presentation of Treasure Island is based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson. Do you know what it means when a performance is said to be based on the book? Not much, that’s what.” Well-known characters are still part of the play: Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, & pirates! Running Time: 35 minutes. Cast: 8m. 1f. 16 either, Extras, Doubling possible.
The Tremendous Traveling Melodrama and Vaudeville Show: Villains take on the heroes and the vaudevillians perform in between acts. Running time: approx 30 min. Cast: 9 m. 10 f. 6 Either (many roles can be changed to be either). Flexible Cast: 19-25+

For two adults to perform:

Digging for Leprechaun Gold: For two adult actors to perform for children. It's an interactive play based on the Irish tale Field of Boliauns. The lazy lass, Fergal, wants to catch a leprechaun and Ba the Leprechaun wants not to be caught. Running Time: 45 minutes. Cast: 1 m. 1 f. with audience interaction.

Scripts on Amazon (Kindle editions):

For two adults to perform:

Digging for Leprechaun Gold

Short Scripts for 2-3 Kids

Marian Scadden put together 15 short scripts for kids to perform at home...or at grandma's house or the cousin's. You'll find the five free scripts that have been available on Marian's author page and 10 more humorous tales for kids to act out.
Head on over to Smashwords or Amazon to purchase the collection. Smashwords has a variety of formats you can download, including pdf, which makes it easy to print out the scripts your kids want to perform.

The Other Art: Theater Skills to Help Every Child (school edition)

SCHOOL EDITION. In this easy DIY manual, teachers with little to no theater experience can teach theater skills to their students that boost esteem, confidence, and creativity. The book focuses on Voice Control, Creative Movement, Expression, Concentration, Imagination, and Stagecraft. Those teaching from the pages do not have to be thespians to manage the games and activities.
If you purchase it from Smashwords, you have a choice of formats including pdf, which will allow you to easily print out the book.
It's also available on Amazon so you can just take it with you on your Kindle.

The Other Art: Theater Skills to Help Every Child (home edition)

HOME EDITION. In this easy DIY theater manual, parents, grandparents & others can enrich a child's life with theater skills that boost esteem, confidence, and creativity. This step-by-step home edition was designed for an adult and child - or a few children - to enjoy together. Each lesson has two short activities, an enrichment game and a true story of children in theater. Just open the book and begin!
It's available at Smashwords in numerous formats and at Amazon for Kindle.

WHITE FIRE (It's a novel, not a script).
A young adult fantasy, with magic, islands, fire, evil sorcerer, talents of power, and miniature dragons. Here's a blurb:

Delsina runs home when a stranger starts to follow her. When she tells her family, her oldest brother, Talem, picks her up and runs. She watches as the stranger who carries fire in his hands burns her home and family. As they make their journey away from Sethrum, Man of Fire, Talem reveals to Delsina who she really is; what he, Talem, must do; and how Delsina must stay hidden. Under such duress, Delsina discovers her power, and hopes to use it against her enemy before he uses fire against her, Talem and others she meets, including the anaries--miniature dragons that were thought to be extinct.

Find the book at Smashwords, (where you can download a variety of formats) Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble. It can also be found at iBooks; go there and in the search field type in "White Fire, Scadden."