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HALLOWEEN PLAYS

Plays Magazine offers a wide variety of short plays perfect for Halloween: Giving Up the Ghosts, A Halloween Sleeping Beauty, The Real Undead of Creepy County, Halloween Scare, The Great Halloween Costume Kerfuffle, The Inexperienced Ghost, and The Witches’ Brew, to name only a few. Frankenstein also gives a good scare for the holiday! All available with our online subscription package ($75).
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BE-SWITCHED by Roger Kise BE-SWITCHED by Roger Kise

Middle and Lower Grades; 5 female, 1 male, 2 male or female; 10 minutes.
Fairy-tale subject (Wicked Witch) gets extreme makeover, courtesy of the team of stylists on popular daytime talk show.

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A HALLOWEEN SLEEPING BEAUTY by Jane Tesh A HALLOWEEN SLEEPING BEAUTY by Jane Tesh

Middle and Lower Grades; 4 male; 4 female; 14 male and/or female; 15 minutes.
A ghoulish twist on the original fairy tale--where it's a curse to be beautiful!

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FRANKENSTEIN by Joellen Bland FRANKENSTEIN by Joellen Bland

Upper Grades
Mary Shelley's chilling tale of Frankenstein's hideous creation and the overwhelming loneliness for which the monster took its revenge. . .

THE WITCHES' BREW by Carol D. Wise THE WITCHES' BREW by Carol D. Wise

Middle and Lower Grades; 6+ female; 20 minutes.
Evil witches meet their match in good witch Clarice, who grows flowers and wears a sunny smile. Is there room for them all in the Witches' Council?

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GIVING UP THE GHOSTS by Bunny Schulle GIVING UP THE GHOSTS by Bunny Schulle

Middle & Lower Grades: 4+ actors: 1 male, 1 female, 2 male or female and as many extras as desired; 10 minutes. Friendly ghosts find they are a bit out of practice when it comes to scaring Halloween trick-or-treaters.
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THE REAL UNDEAD OF CREEPY COUNTY by Jane Tesh THE REAL UNDEAD OF CREEPY COUNTY by Jane Tesh

Middle & Lower Grades: 13+ actors; 7 male, 6 female, and as many extras as desired; 20 minutes. Perfect for Halloween. A large cast of zombies, bats, vampires, and werewolves try to one-up each other as they audition for a reality TV show. Is it bad to be “undead”?

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HALLOWEEN SCARE by Nancy Hulka HALLOWEEN SCARE by Nancy Hulka

Middle & Lower Grades: 5+ actors; 2 male, 3 female, extras as desired a trick-or-treaters; 20 minutes. Is that big old house at the end of the street haunted, or just misunderstood? Kids out to trick or treat learn to lend a helping hand to an older woman in need. Great message about not jumping to conclusions and learning to help others.

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SHADES OF DEATH by John Murray SHADES OF DEATH by John Murray

Upper Grades: 8 actors: 5 female, 3 male; 40 minutes. The creepy tale of a spirit searching for his long-lost daughter, visitors to a lonely old inn, and mysterious disappearances in a town with an eerie name. Perfect for Halloween.

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THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLISTby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted for roundtable reading or radio by Carol D. Wise THE THIRTEEN GHOSTS OF THE GIMME MINE, by Amy Green

Upper & Middle Grades. 17 actors: 9 male, 8 female; 30 minutes. Siblings get a kick out of playing tricks on the tourists in an old mining town—until the tables are turned and the tricks are on them.

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Halloween with Will Shakespeare, by Claire Boiko HALLOWEEN WITH WILL SHAKESPEARE by Claire Boiko

Middle & Lower Grades: 16+ actors: 6 male, 5 female, and 5 male/female; 20 minutes. Young Will Shakespeare is asked to tell his friends a few scary stories, and does he ever, with snippets from Hamlet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Just in time for Halloween.

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