Saturday, July 27, 2013

"Grace" free published one act drama http://freedrama.net/angelplay.html

"Grace" is a short drama about an angel who has fallen in love with a mortal.

This free one act drama has different versions available http://freedrama.net/angelplay.html

"Grace" 3 actors (2 women 1 man)

"A Sacrifice" Scene for two females

"Hope" monologue (female)

"Fallen" monologue (male)

"Bez" monologue (female)

Grace is a published play in the book Great Plays for the Stage Vol. 1 isbn 978-1452871448 available from Amazon.com

Friday, July 26, 2013

"Somebody Famous" on the news in Albania

You can hear my name and see the play. It's fun to see one of my plays in another language.


Buy a low cost PDF of the script: https://sellfy.com/p/Gnuo/

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Free monologues for teens teenagers high school (http://www.freedrama.net/small1.html)

Here are some good monologues for teens (teenagers/high school actors) at http://www.freedrama.net/small1.html

"Cassandra" - Short Comedic Monologue from Published Script- Female (1 minute)

"Beauty and Perfection" - Short Monologue- Female (1 minute)

"The Not So Perfect Child" - Monologue- Female

"Princess" - Comedy Monologue- Female (2 minutes)

"Breaking Heart" - Monologue- Female (2 minutes)

"Protecto (Kid Hero)" - Comedy Monologue- Male or Female (2 minutes)

"Humpty Dumpty Private Egg Hard-Boiled Detective" - Comedic Monologue from Published Script- Male (2 minutes)

"Dear God" - Short Monologue-Male or Female (3-4 minutes)

"End the Hurting" - Short Dramatic Monologue (about bullying and abuse)-Male or Female (30 seconds)

"Monologue from Another World" - Short Monologue - Male or Female (1 minute)

"With One Last Kiss" - Adapted Short Dramatic Monologue- Male (2 minutes)

"Hidden in the Night" - Adapted Short Monologue- Female (2-3 minutes)

Advanced Acting Monologue: "Pearls of Wisdom" -Woman A play for mature teens (6-7 minutes)

Monday, July 22, 2013

Fun new improv games for kids and teens (new actor practice warm-ups)

More Improv Games for Kids (warm-ups / practice for new actors)

Freeze

Split the kids in to two equal groups. If you have an odd number, have one kid play the leader. Have one group walk around the other group. When the leader yells freeze, the group walking must each freeze in to a silly pose. The other group must each pick someone to swap with and must do the same exact silly pose. When all the kids have switched, the leader yells "Go" and the students unfreeze, walk around the other group until the leader yells "Freeze" again.


Defeat the Superhero League

One kid is a super villain. Three or four kids pick superheroes they want to be but keep their identify secret from everyone. Each kid superhero bursts in to the villain's secret lab. The superhero kid must act like their hero but can't say their name. The villain must guess who they are to defeat them and get keep them from destroying the secret lab. If the villain doesn't guess in a few minutes, another superhero enters. When all the heroes are present and have a chance to show their powers, then the villain must guess who they are (within a time limit) or be defeated.

Variation: You can have students also practice this in small groups of 4-5 and then perform it for everyone and have the audience guess the heroes instead.


Gibberish

A group of kids (group #1) act out a scene speaking in a weird alien language. They act out a simple activity like playing baseball or cooking. The other group of kids (group #2) act out the same scene and translate what was said in English.

Variation: have kids translate what was said by the aliens as they act

Variation 2: have a kid play an alien who speaks gibberish and have the other kids try to figure out what he is saying in a scene where an alien visits their school or lands in their backyard


Press Conference

This is good for getting a kid to feel comfortable standing in front of a group by themselves. One kid volunteers to be the "famous person." The kid becomes the famous person by acting the same as the person and using their voice or accent but can only answer yes or no. The other students interview the "famous person" and they get yes or no answers until they can guess who it is.

More improv at: http://freedrama.net/improv.html

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Save the Earth free play scripts

CHILDREN

"Peggy the Pint Sized Pirate" 15 minute version with 7 characters+optional extras or 30 minute version 14 characters+optional extras

"The Owl, the Bull and the Forest" - Short children's play - 2 actors (with optional extras)

"Unicorns and Alley Cats" - A short children's Play - 2 actors

"Why Don't They Care What Happens to the Earth?" - A Full Length Children's Play - 5 actors (female or male)


ADULTS

"Romanian Uranium Mystery" - Interactive audience participation mystery as one act or full mystery dinner theatre script - eight characters

"Mother Earth" Monologue-Woman

"Replenish the Earth" - One Act - 1 m 2 w

"Trinity Rises" Trinity Rises is the story of a young woman who is dealing with the damage to her family and her community as a result of uranium mining. Is her grandfather a Cold War Patriot or a victim of a government who put the creation of nuclear weapons before the health of the miners? She wants to protest against the government but will anyone join her? Does the promise of economic prosperity outweigh the health risks? 2-4 females, 1-3 males (5 total)

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Winners of Voice Acting Contest!

WINNERS! For July 1 Voice Acting Contest

FIRST PLACE: Johnathan Ball Listen to his version of Breaking Heart

SECOND PLACE: Mark Putnam Listen to his version of Demons

THIRD PLACE: Leah O'Brien Listen to her version of Protecto

A new contest will be announced soon at http://www.freedrama.net/voiceact.html

Male Monologues from Published Plays

There are some monologues for men on this link that are from published plays: http://www.freedrama.net/small1.html They are: "Fallen" - Short Dramatic Monologue from Published Script- Male (1 minute) "Flowers from Phil" - Short Comedic Monologue from Published Script- Male (1 minute) "Master" - Comedic Monologue from Published Script- Male (2-3 minutes) "Humpty Dumpty Private Egg Hard-Boiled Detective" - Comedic Monologue from Published Script- Male (2 minutes)

Sunday, July 14, 2013

6 actor free play scripts

Here are free no royalty scripts for six actors.

Short one act plays with exactly six speaking roles:

"Superhero Support Group" http://freedrama.net/supers.html

"Chile Pepper Chicks" http://freedrama.net/chicksshort.html

"Nobody Famous" 4 w 2 m or 5 w 1 m or version 2 - 6 w

"The Boy Who Cried Genie" A short play about a guy who wishes he didn't get wishes. 1-2 males, 4-5 females. http://freedrama.net/boywhocriedgenie.html

"El Rancho Cheapo" http://freedrama.net/cheapo.html

"Blinded by the Knight" A short comedy play about a nervous nerd looking for love in a comic book store (for 2-4 males and 2-4 females = 6 total) http://www.freedrama.net/blindknight.html

"Love at the International Fusion Cafe" short comedy play for four to six actors - "Original PG-13 Version" or "Adapted PG Version"

Full length plays with 6 actors: http://freedrama.net/full.html
"Midnight of the Soul" Full Length Drama - 4 w 2 m http://freedrama.net/midnightsoul2.html

"Holy Ground" a full length religious horror musical for six actors (3 m 3 f) about an evil that consumes the world leaving on a few survivors who hope for protection from the holy ground of a church. http://www.freedrama.net/holygrnd.html

"Operation Redneck" Full Length Comedy - 3 w 3 m http://freedrama.net/opred.html


Short skits with flexible casts that work for six actors:
"Fart-Zen" - very short play for three or more actors (any gender) http://freedrama.net/fertzen.html

"Rock, Sword, Firecracker!" Short comedy about the legend behind the game of Rock, Scissors, Paper. 3+ actors (any gender) http://freedrama.net/firecracker.html

"Touched by an Alien" Short comedy about space explorers that discover a new kind of alien. 5 actors of any gender (plus possible non-speaking roles). http://freedrama.net/aliens.html

"Stung" A short comedy about someone who wants to be one with nature but nature doesn't like her. (4 speaking parts with possible extras) http://freedrama.net/stung.html

"Hipster Hobos" Short sketch comedy skit about being too cool is too annoying. 1 m 1 w 4+ Hipsters (6+ total) http://freedramaplays.blogspot.com/2015/03/hipster-hobos-short-funny-script-skit.html















Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Touched by an Alien radio play

Take a moment and listen to an outstanding reading of the freedrama.net script Touched by an Alien http://freedrama.net/aliens.html

All the parts and the edit are done by the very talented Mark Putnam.

Thank you to Mark for sharing this with us!

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Holy Ground (play script religious horror musical)

I decided to break new ground and try something completely different for a script. I wrote a religious horror musical called "Holy Ground."

I've been working on it for some time along with an audio recording of the play from a wonderful cast.

HOLY GROUND script: http://freedrama.net/holygrnd.html

by D. M. Larson from Freedrama.net

Audio for the first 7 pages (Holy Ground Part 1) starring:

Lindsay Zana as Molly

Justin McKenzie as Art

with Benjamin Liberman as Turk and Jamee Perkins as Bea.

Scene 2 audio stars:

Selena Darlim as Delia

and Mark Putnam as Jude

"Holy Ground" art by http://kachumi.deviantart.com/gallery/

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Polly Wants a Poster (new poster for romantic comedy script "Polly Wants a Cracker")

"Polly Wants a Cracker" is a short play for two actors (one man, one woman, optional non-speaking extras). http://www.freedrama.net/pollycracker.html

This play has a new poster!

Another outstanding poster from my wife. Thanks luv!

More artwork by Shiela Larson at http://kachumi.deviantart.com/gallery/

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

American Revolution Improv Games! (4th of July Theatre Party!)

Have a 4th of July Improv Party with Theatre Games!

Game 1: Pass the Firecracker
A leader is picked and everyone gets in a circle. The leader pantomimes the size of the firecracker and the others in the group have to copy it. When it gets back to the leader, the leader will make it bigger or smaller and pass it again. The leader can add sounds and the others must copy the sounds. Then the leader can randomly say boom and the actor with the firecracker has to react (they can be scared, excited, shocked, etc.). Another variation is to let each actor change the firecracker size and sound. They have to copy the size and sound given to them but then they change it when they pass it to another actor.

Game 2: Where does the 4th of July come from?
A leader pretends to be a narrator of a documentary and the actors must act out the documentary the leader describes. They can do it as a slideshow/powerpoint with still picture poses or actually act out what is being narrated.

Back in time to early America...

Game 3: Inventions with Ben Franklin (aka props)
All the actors are Ben Franklin. Give the Ben Franklins weird things and he has to say what they do. The object can do another except what it really does.

Game 4: Questions Only while Writing the Constitution
Actors get in two lines are represent the Founding Father writing the Constitution. They argue and make suggestions for the Constitution but must do it in the form of a question. If they make a statement or don't use a question, then they must go to the back of the line.

Game 5: Here Comes Madison
"James Madison was highly unpleasant. Bill of Rights champion and Jefferson protégé James Madison, was called “a cloistered pedant”, “cold and repulsive”, “a gloomy stiff creature” and “the most unsociable creature in existence” by contemporaries. He was also a hypochondriac who never traveled because he feared the effects a cold Atlantic Ocean would have on his health." But he wasn't all bad. "James Madison tried to found a National Brewery and a position that we feel would rival head of the State Department in prominence: The Secretary of Beer."

Now for the game. Actors will play early American colonists who are at a brewery that James Madison is trying to start. Before he comes out to take their order and serve them, the actors give him one strange attribute that Madison must act out. Then Madison leaves and the colonists give him a new trait/problem. Madison returns with both the old attribute and new problem. This can be done three times (or more if it is going really well).

Game 6: Pick your General (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
You must pick a General to lead your American troops in the revolution. 3 players (Generals) form a line upstage. The audience provides questions or problems for which they need advice, and the 3 Generals provide good, bad, and really bad advice. Good advice should be good, bad should be opposite of the good and ugly should be an even worse version of bad. Once one set of good, bad and ugly advice is given. Other actors (soldiers) can act out the advice if you want to extend the game.

Game 7: Stand Sit Slump
3 colonial army scouts are looking for British soldiers. One must be standing, one must be sitting and one must slump down on the ground. After each actor says one thing, the last actor to speak must pick a new position (stand) and the others must adjust and pick the two remaining positions (sit and slump). This can continue until a high moment of humor or until one actor messes up.

Game 8: Lines from our Pocket The audience writes funny lines on pieces of paper that the actors can not see. The actors put the lines in their pockets. The scene is about Paul Revere looking for a good catch phrase to call out to warm everyone about British soldiers coming. Each time the actors want to suggest a phrase to Paul, they take one of the funny lines from their pocket and read it.

Game 9: The Revolution in a Minute Two people get a suggestion from the audience about a famous moment in the American Revolution and perform a scene which is timed and completed in 60 seconds. The same scene is performed in 30 seconds and then again in 10 seconds.

Game 10: Toy Soldiers 1-2 actors are colonial soldiers and 1-2 actors are British soldiers. They must do battle but none of them can move on their own. They can only speak. 2 audience members must move them in to battle.

Game 11: Revolution Victory Party
One actor is the host of a victory party. He has invited both real and fictional American Revolution figures (Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher, George Washington, Paul Revere, etc.). Audience members can write down names of famous Revolutionary people and then other actors are given those papers. The actors come to the part as those characters but can't reveal their name). The host must guess who the actors are.

See more improv ideas at http://freedrama.net/improv.html

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