Sunday, December 22, 2013

"Big Zero (aka The Athletic Supporter)" free monologue for teen or adult actor (1 male solo script / scene / skit) http://www.freedrama.net/small1.html

"Big Zero (The Athletic Supporter)" Monologue

Someone runs out in local team colors and a big "O" painted on his chest (or stomach).  A sports jersey with a big O can work as well.  He can have one of those giant foam hands that he waves around. He is excited and screams as he runs on the stage:

BIFF

Go team! Yeah!!!!!

(He calms down and smiles at the audience)

Was that good?  I'm practicing for the big game.

(He looks at his O on his chest)

No, I'm not a zero. I am the 0 in go team. Maybe I am a zero to some people.

But this is my life. This is something that matters to me.  Matters to me more than most anything. You know why?

Unlike most things, there is a clear start and finish.

There are heroes and villains. Winners and losers. There's no pretenders or double agents or false friends. The uniforms make it clear and simple.  We know who to root for and who to trust.

If only life were this simple... This easy... good and bad... Right and wrong.

What if war could be settled with a game?

All the world problems - solved on a Sunday.

Once a year we can have China vs USA... India vs Pakistan... Winner gets what they want for a year.

No more bombs and no more guns... Just helmets and balls.  It sure would be a lot better than what happens now.  Because everyone who fights a war is just a big zero.


For permission to use the monologue contact doug@freedrama.net

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  • Friday, December 20, 2013

    "My Mask" free monologue for teen or adult actor (one female actor) http://www.freedrama.net/small1.html

    "My Mask" is a monologue adapted from the published by "Looks Get in the Way" by D. M. Larson http://freedrama.net/looksget.html

    The monologue works for a teenager or adult female actor. It runs about 30 seconds and requires a mask as a prop.

    Read the monologue at this link: http://freedrama.net/mymask.html

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    Love this picture by my wife, Shiela Larson, of the play. Check out her art at http://kachumi.deviantart.com/gallery/

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  • Saturday, December 14, 2013

    GREENIE (THE LAST LIBERAL) FREE COMEDY MONOLOGUE FEMALE

    GREENIE (THE LAST LIBERAL)
     
    The following monologue is adapted from the play "Operation Redneck" by D. M. Larson. Tina is a small town girl who is worried about her friend, Julie, bringing her liberal boyfriend to their small conservative town.

    TINA: Now wait a minute. You know how narrow minded people here can be. Well... your Greenie boyfriend doesn't go to church. And Your Grandpa's a minister. Your boyfriend thinks all hunters should be shot. Isn't your dad a big game hunter? And your boyfriend doesn't want to have any kids. He thinks the Earth is way too overpopulated? Doesn't your Grandmother hold the town record for giving birth to the most kids? They have a picture of her at the maternity ward in town. This is bad. The last liberal who came to town nearly got themselves killed. Remember when your cousin Earl brought home that girl from California? She had her armpit hair braided! She did! JJ said he saw it. And she chained herself to the local Steak in the Rough BBQ and refused to leave until they served salads. You know what happened to her? She got run over by a garbage truck. Did so, ran right over her foot. It's not safe for them greenies here. You better tell your boyfriend not to come.


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    Wednesday, December 11, 2013

    Martin Luther King Jr. Play Script (Free for Classroom or Stage)

    Here is a really good script to use on Martin Luther King Jr. day for your school, church or stage.

    The play is "From Birmingham Jail" which is a fictional account of the famous letter written by MLK.






    Tuesday, December 10, 2013

    Fun Play Scripts (Fill in the blank Mad Scripts)

    Try one of these fill in the blank Mad-Scripts


    Cinderella

    Cinderella MadScript Sheet #1 Complete Sheet #1 First!

    Cinderella MadScript Do not read until you complete Sheet #1 first!


    Three Little Pigs

    Three Little Pigs MadScript Sheet #2 Complete Sheet #2 First!

    Three Little Pigs MadScript Do not read until you complete Sheet #2 first!


    Little (Fill in the blank) Riding Hood

    Little Blank Riding Hood MadScript Sheet #3 Complete Sheet #3 First!

    Little Blank Riding Hood MadScript Do not read until you complete Sheet #3 first!


    Rapunzel

    Rapunzel MadScript Sheet #4 Complete Sheet #4 First!

    Rapunzel MadScript Do not read until you complete Sheet #4 first!


    The Princess and the Blank

    Princess and the Blank MadScript Starter Sheet Complete Starter Sheet First!

    Princess and the MadScript Do not read until you complete the Startup Sheet first!


    Night at the Library

    Night at the Library MadScript Starter Sheet Complete Starter Sheet First!

    Night at the Library MadScript Do not read until you complete the Startup Sheet first!


    Hysterical History Mad-Scripts

    The Stock Market Crash of 1929

    Fill-in Sheet (complete first)

    Script (do no look at until you complete Fill-in Sheet)


    Bonnie and Clyde

    Fill-in Sheet (complete first)

    Script (do no look at until you complete Fill-in Sheet)

    Visit our lessons page to find lesson plans to go with these hysterical history mad-scripts


    Duologues (published duo two actor play scripts for free)

    Here are some good two actor duologues that are published, available free on the Freedrama website. http://www.freedrama.net/small2.html

    "The Last Can" A short play about two people in love... at the end of the world... with only one can of food left (for 1 male and 1 female) from the published play "Secrets of my Soul" ISBN-13: 978-1493533589

    "Looks Get in the Way" A short romantic comedy for two actors. (1 male and 1 female) from the published play "The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Days of School" ISBN-13: 978-1482739626

    "Polly Wants a Cracker" A short play for two actors (one man, one woman, optional non-speaking extras) from the published play "The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Days of School" ISBN-13: 978-1482739626

    "One Way or Another" A short play for two actors (one man, one woman) from the published play "The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Days of School" ISBN-13: 978-1482739626

    "The Food of Love" A short play for two actors (one man, one woman) from the published play "Secrets of my Soul" ISBN-13: 978-1493533589

    "Kate and Rick" - Duologue scene for two actors from Published Script- Male and Female from the published play "Teen Angel" published in "Royalty Free Plays" ISBN-13: 978-1438235790

    "Confession" - drama for two actors from the published play "Secrets of my Soul" ISBN-13: 978-1493533589

    "Falling Away From You" - drama for two actors about being away from each other from the published play "Secrets of my Soul" ISBN-13: 978-1493533589 (1 male 1 female)

    "A Sacrifice" - Short Drama- 2 actors (2 female) from the published play "Secrets of my Soul" ISBN-13: 978-1493533589

    "Gossip" - Short Comedy - 2-5 more actors
    A play for mature actors from the published play "The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Days of School" ISBN-13: 978-1482739626


    More two actors plays at http://www.freedrama.net/small2.html

    Pirate improv games (fun drama classroom activity with a theme)

    Here are some Pirate Improv Game ideas for a themed drama classroom experience.

    Pass the Cannon Ball: All players in a circle. Ask the players to pass a mimed cannon ball [present] to others (one ball at a time). The cannon ball becomes heavier, until it weighs a ton, or extremely light, extremely big (and light or heavy) or extremely small (and light or heavy). Actors need to show the ball's characteristics in the way it gets passed. When the cannon balls makes it around the circle, then the last person loads the cannon and fires it off and everyone says boom!

    Pirate Mirror Exercise: Pair up actors. One actor is the mirror and must copy everything the other actor does (who is a pirate).

    Shrinking Treasure Box: Actors pantomine that they are in a very large treasure box. They jump in and are excited about the treature (show it without using words). Show audience all the sides. Then the treasure box gets smaller. Show the audience how small it is getting. Then they must figure out a way to escape. The actor must do a good job showing the audience how they have escaped (without talking) so they can correctly guess how.

    Find the Captain: Everyone quietly mills about the room. No one knows who the captain is. One person (the Captain) will elect to freeze in position unexpectedly. As soon as one notices that someone else has frozen in position they freeze as well. So the effect of one person freezing causes everyone to freeze. Once everyone is still the group starts milling around again. The goal is to see how quickly the group can freeze in position and also figure out who the captain is.

    3 Peg Legs: A fun and silly game. Let everyone walk leisurely around the room. When you shout '3 Peg Legs' the players must form little groups, each group consisting of 3 legs touching. Use your imagination - say 4 hook hands, 2 ears, 9 fingers, 5 patch eyes, 4 elbows, 3 heads, 7 left big toes, 4 little fingers. Repeat till everyone is giggling.

    Pirate Alphabet Game: The actors act out a scene but they must start each sentence with the letters of the alphabet. The scene is a captain is getting his crew to prepare the ship for it's first voyage to sea. If an actor gets a letter wrong, audience yells WALK THE PLANK (and that actor must pantomime walking the plank and jumping in the ocean). The remaining actors continue.

    Lines from our Pockets: The audience will write lines that pirates might say. Someone will collect the lines and not show them to the actors. The actors put the papers in their pockets without looking at them. The actors will act out the scene and then they must take a paper from their pocket after saying a few made up lines and add the line in their pocket at the end of what they are saying. The scene is a group of pirates looking for treasure on an island.

    Pirate Melodrama: We have an old fashioned melodrama for you, but with a twist. The twists will be based on suggestions from the audience. We have three characters: a damsel in distress, a pirate hero, and an evil pirate villain. Audience: you will Boo at Villain, Cheer for Hero, Ahhh for Damsel. Audience will suggest... Damsel: something strange to raise on a farm, Villain: a weird form of torture, Hero: an odd weapon someone might use to stop a villain.

    Stunt Doubles: 2 Actors are acting a scene such as swabbing the deck of the ship. When it comes time to do a "dangerous" step (such as filling the bucket with water or getting soap) they call in their stunt doubles.

    Here Comes Blackbeard: One actor plays Blackbeard who is off stage. The other two actors are pirates who want to join Blackbeard's crew. They describe what Blackbeard is like while he is off stage. Blackbeard enters to inspect the troops and Jill acts like he is described. He repeats this three times and must add each new trait on top of the other ones that are said.


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    Saturday, December 7, 2013

    Shakespeare Improv Show! (improvise a Hamlet play)

    Hamlet Improv - Improv Theatre with a Theme

    All games relate to the plot of Hamlet

    Your theatre group will need 4 actors and a leader to cover PLOT, run games, and get volunteers from audience.

    INTRODUCTION (Someone plays a famous person and does charts of Hamlet plot - See "Our Story Begins..." below)

    PLOT: Hamlet's father is murdered. The main suspects in the murder are his wife Gertrude and his brother Claudius (Hamlet's uncle) CSI - In the style of the TV show - actors try to solve the murder of Hamlet's father (select three audience members play Claudius, Gertrude, King) Witness (actor #1) - tells version and volunteers from audience act it out Cop (actor #2) - tells version and volunteers act it out Gil and Katherine (actors 3 and 4) - tell their version and volunteers act it out

    PLOT: A ghost has been appearing at the castle. Soldiers are waiting for ghost to reappear - ghost is of Hamlet's father and reveals that it was a most unnatural murther. Film and TV styles - Audience calls out movies and tv shows (such as Batman and Robin, Dukes of Hazzard, Harry Potter, Blue's Clues, Dora, Alien vs. Predator, Star Wars) - Actors 1 with audience volunteer are soldiers waiting for something outside castle - a ghost appears (Actor #2) - LEADER CHANGES MOVIE/TV STYLE- ghost leaves when cock crews - CHANGE IN MOVIE/TV STYLE- Horatio (actor #3) enters - CHANGE IN MOVIE/TV STYLE- ghost appears and goes - CHANGE IN MOVIE/TV STYLE- Hamlet (actor #4) enters and talks to ghost

    PLOT: Hamlet decides to use a play to make his Uncle confess to his father's murder. He believes that if the murder is reinacted on stage his Uncle will reveal himself. Possible games - Gibberish (we never found a good game that worked for this so if you figure one out, please email us at pocolocoplayers@yahoo.com)

    PLOT: Hamlet goes to his mother because he feels she was part of the plot to kill his father. Polonius, Ophelia's father, is hiding and spying on them. Hamlet tries to make his mother confess but when he becomes violent, Polonius cries for help. Hamlet thinks it is his Uncle who is spying and attacks. Polonius is killed. Stunt Double (Hamlet - Polonius - Hamlet's mother) Three audience volunteers are needed. Hamlet: Actor 1 Hamlet's Stunt Double: Audience Member Gertrude: Audience Member Gertrude's Stunt Double: Actor 2 Polonius: Audience Member Polonius' Stunt Double: Actor 3 HAMLET COMES TO HIS MOTHER Two characters do the scene from Hamlet and when one of the actors is about to get hurt, they call for a stunt double. The stunt double takes the physical punishment, the scene then resumes with the original actor who is unharmed. The stunt doubles for the scene carry previous injuries into subsequent times they enter the scene.

    PLOT: Ophelia is so upset that Hamlet has gone crazy and killed her father Polonius that she goes crazy too and drowns herself. Lines from our pockets - At Ophelia's funeral (four actors) Audience Participation: During an intermission or before the show, the audience writes lines of dialogue on pieces of paper. How it works: The two actors do a simple scene, but must pull lines intermittently from the pocket, and incorporate them into the scene. Wackiness ensues.

    (use the following if the first CSI game went well) BAKCUP GAME CSI - Crime scene - Ophelia's death Witness - tells version and they act it out Cop - tells version and they act it out Gil and Katherine - tell their version and they act it out

    PLOT: Laertes challenges Hamlet to a dual to the death to avenge the deaths of his father Polonius and his sister Ophelia. But Hamlet's uncle has poisoned them both and they are paralyzed. They can talk but they can't move. Poisoned! Battle to the death but can't move - helpers from audience help Hamlet (actor 1) and Laertes (actor 2) fight - introduce more actors into the scene to frustrate audience members - Gertrude (actor 3) and Claudius (actor 4).

    PLOT: Due to a lack of Mr. Yuck labels in the castle, everyone seems to fall victim to the poison that Claudius intended for Hamlet alone. Which is kind of symbolic don't you think? Questions only (tournament of champions) - audience yells “Die” Actors vs. Guests - All volunteers from previous games asked to return - must speak in questions - audience person who answers the most times in questions in a row wins Scene: What is rotten in the state of Denmark?


    More ideas:

    Our story begins… (you may want to start the show with a plot poster - we tried this for one performance but ended up not needing it)
    Denmark in a smellier time (poster can be in shape of Denmark - act like something on back of poster smells)
    Hamlet's father dead
    His mother Gertrude marries Hamlet's Uncle Claudius
    The ghost of dead King appears at the castle and tells Hamlet that Uncle killed him
    Hamlet starts to behave strangely after seeing ghost
    Hamlet has some actors do a play that reenacts his father's murder and makes Claudius and Gertrude very uncomfortable.
    Hamlet visits his mother in her bedroom in a scene that makes the audience very uncomfortable and kills Polonius who is spying (thinking it is Claudius).
    Claudius sends two spies , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to kill Hamlet but they have a contract dispute and receive larger roles in another play.
    Ophelia goes nuts after her father Polonius is killed and drowns herself.
    Hamlet agrees to a duel with Laertes (Ophelia's brother) and Claudius adds poison to Laertes blade to make sure Hamlet dies.
    Claudius also offers Hamlet a poison cup to drink from but Gertrude drinks it instead and dies.
    Hamlet stabs Laertes and Laetres stabs Hamlet. Hamlet (taking forever to die) kills Claudius. And Hamlet dies

    Other games we tried

    Dating Game with Gertrude plus Hamlet, Claudius and Dead Father as the bachelors - failed miserably for us. Party Quirks - we had strange quests coming to the wedding feast of Gertrude and Claudius - it was funny but it didn't seem to make sense in the overall context of things.


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

    Fake History (make your own history free lesson plan)

    Fake History

    Make your own history!

    Hook (Anticipatory Set): Have students play Rock, Scissors, Paper. Ask them where they think the game came from.

    Direct Instruction: Read play "Rock, Sword, Firecracker!" a short comedy about the legend behind the game of Rock, Scissors, Paper. http://www.freedrama.net/firecracker.html

    Guided Practice: In groups, create ideas for a short play where you make up the history behind something ordinary such as Knock, Knock Jokes.

    Closure: Have students tell about their short play ideas.

    Independent Practice: Students will pick their favorite fake history contest and write a script.

    Follow-up: Groups of students can practice and perform a student written script for the class.


    More free lesson plans for teachers at: http://www.freedrama.net/teach.html

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    Friday, December 6, 2013

    Help with improv for acting class (bad at improvisation)

    Question: i have to do a 1-2 minute improvisation on my own. I will be given a character, situation, and conflict. I will then have 30 seconds to prepare and a desk and two chairs i can use.

    I am a horrible improviser. Really, really terrible and it's tomorrow. Any ideas how to at least be ok? How to survive? Tips...


    Answer:

    The key with improv is don't worry about being funny. Take your required elements and do the very first thing that comes to mind. Don't over think it. Improv works best when you are impulsive.

    Or if that sounds too scary :)

    You can pre-plan how you will handle it. Maybe you will do it in the style of a commercial or a documentary. Or maybe you are an Alfred Hitchcock or Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) type narrator settin up the scene. If you narrate the scene and set it up before you perform in then it should give you time before you act it out.

    For example, you are the narrator and you say, here is (character), he is in (setting) and this is when he (situation). Then you can throw in a twist or something else interesting... But you will be surprised by... Some other interesting thing you think up.

    More improv tips and games at http://www.freedrama.net/improv.html

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