Youth Drama Anthologies
Author
Main Anthology
Title
Titles within Anthology
Cast
Men
Genre
Women
Act One
(One-Act)
Bleasdale, Alan
Hill, Susan
Haworth, Don
Love is a many splendoured
thing
On the face of it
Mr Bruin who once drove a bus
Russell, Will
Our day out
Aiken, Joan
Winterthing
The mooncusser’s daughter
Carthew, Mark
[Based on poems
by Michael Rosen]
Clay, N. L.
Clay, N. L.
Kaleidoscope
(One-Act)
Eight plays for
boys
(One-Act)
Six plays for girls
(One-Act)
Kaleidoscope
The Skyfoogle
The torch
A cottage in Sherwood
Abraham and Isaac
Hide and seek
Christie Graeme
King Tom and the Sheriff
Displeasure beach
The price of a cure
(Can be played by less)
The price of wisdom
May Colven
The innkeepers daughter
The magicians niece
From the cave
Alice
Mary in charge
3
3
+ extras
2
1
8
2
+ extras
14
6
+ extras
5
3
2
9
+ extras
7V
5V
3
2
7
1
4
6
4
8
7
16
13
3
10
1
3
1
3
6
6
2
8
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
City Life
Russell, Willy
Hadaway, Tom
Lies (Parts 1 + 2)
Uncle Sangi (One Act)
Plater, Alan
Short back and sides (Parts 1 +
2) (One Act)
7
7
1
1
+ extras
5
3
Drama
Drama
4
1
1
4
3
6
12
4
1
4
6
1
5
Many
2
3
3
2
1
3
6V
8
7
5
6
3
1
+ extras
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Communities
(One-Act)
Blakeney, Gavin
Blakeney, Gavin
Blakeney, Gavin
Jones, Julia
Jones, Julia
Dryden, Ellen
Farjeon, Eleanor
Six primroses
each
(One-Act)
Grannie Gray and
other plays
(One-Act)
Shove up a bit
Hush-a-bye baby
Blind eye
Old fogey
Nuts and bolts
Six primroses each
Adventure camp
The children’s ward
The press gang
In service
The colour of compassion
The strawberry tea
Flatmates
Shadows
Mother Hutch
Grannie Gray’s down the well
Let’s help Mother
‘Was you ever in Quebec?’
5
2
9
2
4
5
Farquhar-Smith, A
Francis, Paul
Francis, Paul
Groves, Paul
More plays to
finish (One-Act)
Power plays
Under pressure
(One-Act)
All action
(One-Act)
Groves, Paul
Six plays for
today (One-Act)
Groves, Paul
Six silly plays
(One-Act)
Groves, Paul
Groves, Paul
Eight even sillier
plays (One-Act)
Read around
(One-Act)
Groves, Paul
Tell me where it
hurts (One-Act)
Hardwick, Michael
and Mollie
The games afoot:
Sherlock Holmes
Snow White
Pop goes the group
Disastrous Fred
Football crazy
A long trip home
At the Doctor’s
The new Marshal
Life on another planet
The jump
Whodunnit?
A trip to the zoo
A whole lot of grief
Assassination
Changes in the air
See how you go (One-Act)
A sense of purpose (One-Act)
Critical condition
Facing the future
Making sure
Out of school
Shelter
Chicken
Just a drink
Dave and the horse
The ghosts on the moor
Planet Station Delta
A nice day out
Hostages
Jack and the beanstalk
Vampire villa
A weekend away
Meeting Mr West
You, the jury
Home sweet home
Neighbours
The shelter
Crazy court
Holiday cottage
It’s a fair cop
Nigel’s foot
Stagecoach
The egg play
The bank raid
The chemistry lesson
The case of the missing holes
The terrible ballad of the
Chelsea supporter
Channel No. 5
Robin Hood and his Unmerrie
Men
The parcel
Quick promotion
The dragon’s problem
The playground after dark
Aladdin
The reward
Anita and the Alsatian
Who believes in all that guff?
The operation
The hospital visit
Doctor! Doctor!
The dying detective
The three Garridebs
22 V
2
2
1
3
3
Many
4
Many
5
3
Many
10
2
3
2
2
2
3
7
11 V
4
3
11 V
4
5
3
3
5
3
5
15 V
4
5
4
8
8V
4
3
3
8V
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
7
5
14 V
Comedy
Comedy
4
4
3
6
3
5
5
3
10 V
3
4
4
3V
2V
5V
1
2
Comedy
Comedy
Drama
Drama
Pantomime
Drama
Drama
Drama
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Dramatisat..
Dramatisat..
4
2
4
7
3
8
4
4
3
12
5
4
9
3
2
3
3
2
5
7
5
7
4
7
4
5
5
3
4
4
7
4
7
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
8
5
1
7V
[Arthur Conan
Doyle]
Hardwick, Michael
and Mollie
[Arthur Conan
Doyle]
Hardwick, Michael
and Mollie
[Charles Dickens]
Haylock, Derek
plays
(One-Act)
Four Sherlock
Holmes plays
(One-Act)
Plays from
Dickens
(10 minute key
episodes from the
novels)
(One-Act)
Plays for all
seasons: Drama
through the
Christian year
(One-Act)
Black Peter
The Reigate squires
The speckled band
Charles Augustus Milverton
The Mazarin stone
The blue carbuncle
Nicholas turns the tables
[Nicholas Nickleby]
Miss Havisham’s revenge
[Great Expectations]
The worst of times
[A Tale of Two Cities]
An adventure in the streets
[Dombey and Son]
School for thieves
[Oliver Twist]
Bardell v. Pickwick
[The Pickwick Papers]
Message received, but not
understood
An orderly account
I wonder what happened to him?
We can’t see Jesus!
It makes you think
Happy New Year!
Gardener’s question time
What is this thing called love?
As a mother…
Peter’s denial
On trial
Garden path
Not the end
That’s the Spirit
The great adventure
The rich fool
Family reunion
Farmer Jack
Not a lot of people know that
Tug of war
Saint’s alive!
7
10
3
4
9
8
12
1
1
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
4
3
Dramatisat.
4
2
Dramatisat.
4
2
Dramatisat.
The actor
The bear table
The exam
Gold
Illyria
Lady Chill, Lady Wad, Lady
Lurve, Lady God
Nuts
Olive
Starstone
Take-Away
Team Spirit
You’ll never guess!
[Rumpelstiltskin]
Clever Elsie, Smiling John,
Silent Peter
A good thing or a bad thing
The magic powder
The fisherman and his wife
6
5
7
2
4
1
10
Dramatisat.
Many
7V
Dramatisat.
Religious
10 V
2V
3V
11 V
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
5
1
6
14 V
7
Many
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
9
7
11 V
8
5-8 V
Many
5
2
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Dramatisat.
3
2
Comedy
1
2
2
3
1
1
Drama
Drama
Drama
2
3
4
2
2
2
3
5
3
14 V
11 V
3V
3
2
2
4V
1
3
2
8V
6V
7
International
connections: New
plays for young
people
Foote, Horton
Garner, Julian
Hamilton, Andy
Mason, Timothy
Lavery, Bryony
Adshead, Kay
Paravidino, Fausto
Oglesby, Tamsin
Martin, Christian
Kay, Jackie
Upton, Judy
Jellicoe, Ann
Lane, Sheila and
Kemp, Marion
3 Jelliplays
(One-Act)
The magic
powder and other
11
3
Lillington, Kenneth
stories
(One-Act)
The fourth
windmill book
(One-Act)
The real princess
1
2
Drama
Make your play
Bring out your dead
I’ll ring for more toast
Is horror your neighbour?
A villa on Venus
You never heard such unearthly
laughter
The Cinderella story
7
6
5
4
2
2
3
11 V
12 V
5
2
6
Drama
Gulpin
8
6
Drama
First date
The fight
Just love
I cried at your wedding
Mum, where are you?
Visitor from another planet
A day at the zoo
The gingerbread boy
King of the animals
Is there a post office near here?
The pirates’ treasure
Where are the clowns?
3
5
3
11
4
7
9
8
Drama
Drama
Comedy
Drama
Comedy
Drama
Love and
marriage
Fay, Sheila and
Jones, Ken
Williams, David
Williams, David
Kingston, Leonard
Sotheby, Madeline
Paice, Eric
McCallum, George
1
1
5
7
4
5
4
6
15 V
9
5
5
9
7
3
+ extras
7
5
3
4
9
3
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Am I what I wear?
Uniform and uniformed
Nothing but the truth
Numerical man
4
8
5
3
13 V
13 V
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Hollingworth, Philip
Parker, Richard
Saki (H.H.Munro)
Bayliss, A.E.M.
Adkins, Ella
Samuel, George
The stroke of twelve
The hut
The death-trap
One good turn
The unexpected
The guy is not for burning
3
6
5
6
5
9
+ 1 body
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Wood, R.H.
Armstrong, Martin
Pendered, Mary L.
Monvid, Grazyna
Choices
Monvid, Grazyna
Challenges
Malcolmson, Anne
Miracle Plays
(One-Act)
Post early for Christmas
A crumb for the bird
The china dog
Arrangements
All right for some
As good as you get
Life and death
Escapes
To be or not to be
Prejudice
Taken on trust
Noah’s flood
Abraham and Isaac
The nativity
The shepherd’s play
Herod and the Magi
Visitor from
another planet
and other plays
(One-Act)
Intended for
young learners of
English as a
Second
Language
Wendy’s birthday party
What delicious soup!
One night at the OK Ranch
Drama
Drama
Drama
Masks and faces
Bains, Lynn
Lavery, Bryony
Maynard, Michael
Lavery, Bryony
Modern One-Act
plays for schools
(One-Act)
1
1
2
+ extras
5
5
2
2
3
3
3
6
3
4
3
7
4
4
8
3
3
1
5
3
Many
5
4
4
1
1
1
4
3
7
2
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Religious
Moran, Jane
Moran, Jane
Read around the
world – 1
(One-Act)
Read around the
world – 2 (OneAct)
Saint Nicholas and the three
scholars
The statue of Saint Nicholas
Harisharman’s story
The white pet
Odysseus and the Cyclops
The salty sea
Anansi and Old Witch Five
The chief, the drum and the
tortoise
Finn and Cucullin
The Mannikins
Johnny’s story
Yang and the blue silk scarf
5
1
Religious
1
10
1
4
13 V
2
3
5
13 V
Religious
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
9
8
6
6
6
6
7
4
5
3
6
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Many
Many
Many
Many
6
Many
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Nativity
More modern
one-act plays 1
(One-Act)
Ayckbourn, Alan
Barwis, Michael
Ball, A.
Banks, Morton
Houston, Gaie
Wood, Margaret
Ernie’s incredible illucinations
Island
The seven slaves
A day out
Cabbages
Folk song Nativity
6
More modern
one-act plays 2
(One-Act)
Excursion
Arthur
The stranger from Heaven
Good morning – and Welcome
to the last day of the final test at
the Berlin Oval
Fit for a King
Speech day
6
8
9
3
4
1
Many
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
7
3
Many
Nativity
Drama
Evans, Sian
Asleep under the dark earth
4
Drama
Harrower, David
[Wyndam, John]
Lochead, Liz
Moxley, Gina
Armitage, Simon
Aston, David
Wallace, Naomi
Lavery, Bryony
Bent, Simon
Ridley, Philip
Soyinka, Wole
Coles, Jane
The Chrysalids
5
+ extras
Many
Many
8
3
3
1
Many
5
3
3
9
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
7
8
Many
5
2
4
4
3
3
Drama
Drama
Drama
Plater, Alan
Cregan, David
Ball, A.
Kramskoy, Adrian
Wood, Margaret
Hines, Barry
New
Connections:
New plays for
young people
Cuba
Dog house
Eclipse
The golden door
In the sweat
More light
Shelter
Sparkleshark
Travel club and boy soldier
The ultimate fudge
5
4
4
4
9
6
9
9
Dramatisat.
New Connections
99
MacDonald, S.
Pinnock, Winsome
Fo, Dario
Dorst, Tankred
Vincent, Hannah
Gill, Peter
Ayckbourn, Alan
After Juliet
Can you keep a secret?
The Devil in drag
Can be played by
Don’t eat little Charlie
Early man
Friendly fire
Gizmo
Can be played by
6
12
8
5
10
6
14
8
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Reid, Christina
Goetzee, Paul
Daniels, Sarah
Overton, Marie
[Mrs E. Nesbit]
The King of the castle
The pilgrimage
Taking breath
The time explorers
[The story of the amulet]
The phoenix and the carpet
4
8
5
9
Davies, Andrew
Eales, Steve
Wood, David
Hoff the cat dealer
Don’t bother the animals
Robin Hood and Friar Tuck
Drama
Drama
Drama
Davies, Andrew
Eales, Steve
The thing
Handscapes
Marian and the witches’ charm
14 V
Many
4V
+ extras
5
2
2
2
+ extras
18 V
Chaundler, C.
McCann, Andrew
A child is born
No such thing as Christmas
8
2
Nativity
Christmas
Owen, Ricky
King George and the Turkish
Knight
The third wish
The time
explorers
5
5
5
7
Drama
Drama
Drama
Dramatisat.
Many
Dramatisat.
Playstage: Six
primary school
plays
(One-Act)
Wood, David
Drama
Drama
Drama
Plays for
Christmas
(One-Act)
6
5
2
+ extras
Many
6
Christmas
Christmas
Prompt One
(One-Act)
England, Alan
A day in the mind of Tich
Oldfield
Island
Voyage of a lifetime
Apples
George
Barwis, Michael
Harvey, Trevor
Taylor, C. P.
Bond, C. G.
10
3
+ extras
Many
Many
18 V
1
2
Drama
Many
1
+ extras
Many
6V
10 V
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Prompt Two
(One-Act)
Hines, Barry
Terson, Peter
Speech day
The ballad of Ben Bagot
Taylore, Bob
Rudkin, David
Shaw, Don
Here is your life
Burglars
A question of honour
5
Prompt Three
(One-Act)
Hall, Willis
Hale, John
Minton, Roy
Holles, Robert
Whitehead, E. A.
They don’t all open men’s
boutiques
Decibels
Bovver
Old comrades
The punishment
15
Drama
2
3
3
2
2
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
The Fosdyke Saga episode 1
The Fosdyke Saga episode 2
A case for probation
Grandma goes west
Cutting loose
11
6
2
5
5
3
3
1
3
1
Radio/Com
Radio/Com
Radio
Radio/Com
Radio
A fairy tale for Freudians
5
3
Radio
Radio Scripts
[Studio scripts]
(One-Act)
Tidy, Bill
Tidy, Bill
Doherty, Berlie
McStay, Michael
Graham-Campbell,
A
Windsor, Valerie
School [Studio
scripts]
(One-Act)
Redmond, Phil
Baker, George
Dhondy, Farrukh
Challen, John
Williams, David
Scholey, Arthur
Five plays for
Christmas
(One-Act)
Grange Hill
The little dissident
Maids the mad shooter
Headmaster
Name in the papers
The Christmas mysteries
Can be played by
St George and the dragon
The first Christmas tree
Penny for a King
Baboushka
Many
5
2
Many
2
3
5
8V
3
1
1V
Drama
Radio
Drama
Drama
Radio
Nativity
6
4
11
The liver birds
Happy ever after
Rising damp
Last of the Summer wine
Going straight
5
3
3
7
3
5
3
3
4
2
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Open all hours
Only when I laugh
Hancock’s half hour
A fine romance
Yes Minister
Crime wave
The mystery gift
2B or not 2B
Tap tap
Only a ripple
A bit of a drip
Quite a splash
War paint
Secrets
A bit of your own back
The angels
Women at the inn
The shepherds
The Kings
Christmas cards
Free gifts
The generation game
The fairy on the Christmas tree
The storytellers
Grinling Gibbons and the plague
of London
[The carved cartoon]
Oliver Twist
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
5
7
3
5V
4V
3
1V
Many
Many
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Drama
Drama
Drama
Christmas
Nativity
Nativity
Nativity
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas
Drama
Dramatisat.
Many
Many
Many
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Dramatisat.
Many
Many
9V
Nativity
Drama
Drama
9V
3
Many
Drama
Drama
Drama
5
7
5
5
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas
Situation Comedy
(One-Act)
Lane, Carla
Chapman, John
Chappell, Eric
Clarke, Roy
Clement, Dick
Situation Comedy
2
(One-Act)
Clarke, Roy
Chappell, Eric
Galton, Ray
Larbey, Bob
Jay, Antony
Tordoff, Bill
Laughter lines
(One-Act)
Townsend, John
Making a splash
(One-Act)
Walker, David
Play Read
(One-Act)
Walking, Simon
Angels delight
(One-Act)
Very short
sketches
Way, Brian
[Austin Clare]
[Charles Dickens]
Williams, Guy
[Herman Melville]
Three plays for
the open stage
(One-Act)
3
6
1
1
1
7
5
2
Many
4
3
Many
Many
Many
Many
1
2
3
5
3
4
3V
3
3V
3
The eighth
windmill book of
One-Act plays
(One-Act)
Bartlett, Nicholas
Bradwell, John
Campton, David
Challen, John
Lillington, Kenneth
Sumner, Derry
The two travellers
School for witches
The do-it-yourself Frankenstein
outfit
Shirts
There’s an end of May
The history of bad-good Wood
8
Wordplays 1
(One-Act)
Sheasby, Dave
Alexander, Mandy
We shall never die
The tree machine
Jacques, Brian
Pickles, Anne
Russell, Willy
Shields, Tim
The awful Billy Smiff
Darren’s conker
Politics and terror
All friends together
Many
3
5
+ 6 extras
6
6
9
7
2
1
6
5
Drama
Drama
5
10
5
1
2
1
Many
2
2
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
8V
Drama
3
14 V
6
Many
4
1
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Wordplays 2
(One-Act)
The killer cave
The dividing fence
Get well soon
What are we going to do now
Gone to Jesus
Breaking out
England, Alan
Terson, Peter
Campbell, Ken
Bleasdale, Alan
Bond, Chris
Friel, George
7
7
Young blood
Wallace, Naomi
Way, Charles
Rose, J.B.
Yeger, Sheila
Romer, Marcus
The girl who fell through a hole
in her jumper
The search for Odysseus
Can be played by
Darker the berry
Geraniums
Out of their heads
Can be played by
3
5
8
2
Comedy
Drama
Drama