10 Best One Act Plays for High School Drama provides scene and monologues from selected plays for your consideration.

10 Best One Act Plays for High School Drama

FOR ALL WE’VE GOT
Luna wants a way out from what she feels is an average life leading nowhere.  She talks with her best friend Shelley about her concerns and the two try to come to terms with their problems.

PIPER’S COMING HOME
A group of young misfits live in an abandoned warehouse.  Jerome tries to get Skylar to give Piper back her room after she’s been gone to rehab.

SOFT SONG
Tina is an up and coming music artist who loves what she does and puts her work ethic above everything else.  However, her Grandmother is dying and she may be celebrating her final birthday.  Can Tina put herself aside and be present for her Grandmother instead?

DUST IN OUR EYES
Dean talks to his friend Paula about how he wants to follow his dreams and get more out of life and never settle.  He tries to inspire Paula to stop being down on herself.

ONE-WAY CONVERSATION
All Bella wants his her mother’s love and understanding but she always feels pushed aside or second best and it’s finally caught up to their relationship.

OTHER SIDE OF THE CHASM
Chad wants to simply get a job and ditch college in order to be
independent, but his friend Lea feels differently about his life’s path.

NOWHERE NEAR HAPPY
Ava has become a successful teenage entrepreneur.  She wishes to take care of her family or at least help them financially, but neither one of her parents are willing to accept help from their daughter Ava, which causes conflict within their family.

CHECKING IN
Rob hasn’t seen his father since he was a baby.  He’s located him and turns up to meet him for the first time as a young man.

GONE BEFORE YOU LEFT
Tash has overheard that Peggy is fleeing home with her boyfriend to try and make it in New York.  Tash wants to try and escape her home situation as well, but things may not work out as Tash would like.

PEANUTS ON THE DOLLAR
Chester comes from a poor family, so poor that he might have to commit a crime to get the money needed for his mother’s life saving surgical procedure.

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