An anthology of six short plays, suitable for any grade level including adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and A Christmas Carol. The anthology also includes three original plays.

This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.

This is an anthology of 23 new plays all written by student writers. It is a wide variety of short plays that were written over the course of one school year and presented at the annual One Act Play Festival. The school is not your everyday high school however; The Southern New Jersey Academy of the Performing Arts draws talented theatre and dance students from across 7 counties in the southern third of New Jersey. These students work every day in their major field developing their skills as writers, directors, and actors. Once they have appeared on the mainstage they are initiated as members of the Academy Repertory Theatre Company and work together much in the same way that a professional company does. Magnet Theatre Company is a resident theater company in Trenton, New Jersey and is in full time residence as the production company at the Academy. This book is the result of this collaboration between a performing arts high school and a professional theater company. The writing that you will find in this collection ranks right alongside the writing in one-act festivals at theaters all across the country. It will make you laugh, cry, and applaud when you are done. Enjoy this edition, hopefully it will be the first of many.

Written by some of the most exciting and successful writers in youth theater, containing more than 90 roles created especially for middle school actors.

Young Playwrights for Change: A "What is Family?"Play Anthology is a collection of seventeen short plays written by middle school students from across the United States on the subject of bullying. These plays won their local Young Playwrights for Change competitions and were then submitted to the national competition sponsored by Theatre for Young Audiences/USA and the American Alliance for Theatre & Education. This collection represents the competition's second year (2014-15).