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Find a drama book for your group

Whether you are exploring a story with young children or preparing a short performance, start with the resource that fits your group.

For inquiry and imaginative play in the early years

Drama Start: Inquiry and Play offers 23 flexible starting points, open questions and drama strategies built around Notice → Question → Investigate → Discover.

For short plays and fables

Aesop’s Fables on Stage contains 18 short scripts for children aged 5–11, with flexible roles and minimal props.

See the plays in Aesop’s Fables on Stage

More Aesop’s Fables on Stage offers another collection of plays adapted from Aesop’s fables for children.

Panchatantra on Stage offers 18 short plays adapted from traditional Indian animal tales, with flexible casting for group reading and performance.

For Irish legends

Irish Legends on Stage adapts traditional Irish legends into plays for children.

For familiar fairytales

Fairytales on Stage offers children’s scripts based on well-known stories.

Fairytales on Stage 2 adds more familiar stories, including Jack and the Beanstalk and The Nutcracker, plus movement plays.

Grimm’s Fairytales on Stage adapts the Brothers Grimm’s fairytales into plays for children.

For Oscar Wilde’s stories

Oscar Wilde’s Stories on Stage adapts stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Canterville Ghost into plays for children.

For animal stories and movement plays

Animal Stories on Stage brings together 20 plays based on animal stories.

For imaginative animal stories

Just So Stories on Stage adapts Rudyard Kipling’s animal tales into plays for children. Try the free How the Camel Got His Hump script.

For Bible story plays

Bible Stories on Stage adapts well-known Bible stories into plays for children. Try the free Creation play.

For Buddha story plays

Buddha Stories on Stage adapts Buddha stories into plays for children. Try the free Buddha and the Angry Man play.

For stories from around the world

World Stories on Stage brings stories and traditions from around the world into plays for children.

For Easter plays

Easter Stories on Stage offers plays based on Easter stories. Try the free Story of the Easter Bunny play.

For Greek myth plays

Greek Myths on Stage adapts Greek myths into plays for children.

For Norse legends

Norse Legends on Stage brings Norse mythology into plays for children, with flexible roles and simple staging. Try these Greek and Norse mythology drama ideas.

For nursery rhyme plays

Nursery Rhymes on Stage turns familiar nursery rhymes into plays for children.

For supernatural stories

Supernatural Stories on Stage adapts ghost stories, legends and supernatural tales into plays for children.

For gratitude and thankfulness

Gratitude Stories on Stage explores gratitude and thankfulness through plays for children. Try the free gratitude drama workshop.

For Tudor history through drama

Tudors on Stage brings Tudor history to life through short plays for children, with flexible casting and clear narration. Read about using Tudor plays in the classroom.

For Beatrix Potter’s stories

Beatrix Potter’s Stories on Stage adapts Beatrix Potter’s stories into plays for children.

For fairytale games and imaginative drama

Drama Start: Fairytales & Fantasy offers drama games, movement stories, role-play ideas and short plays inspired by fairytales. Try The Giant’s Banquet workshop.

For flexible drama activities

Drama Start offers ideas for drama, role play and imaginative group work.

For exploring family and community

Drama Start: Me, My Family & My Community offers drama activities exploring children’s lives, families and communities.

For drama activities for ages 9–12

Drama Start Two offers drama games and plays for children aged 9–12.

For classic stories on stage

Classics on Stage adapts classic stories including The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Pinocchio and Around the World in Eighty Days into plays for children.

Ballet Stories on Stage

Ballet Stories on Stage adapts well-known ballets into plays with flexible casting and simple staging.

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