Summer is the perfect season for storytelling under the sun—or the stage lights—and at Blue Dasher Press, we’re thrilled to share a curated collection of our summer-themed stage plays! Whether you're looking for a quick 15-minute piece or a full-length production to anchor your summer lineup, we've got something for every stage and every audience. Each script is available as a printable PDF in our digital store, and best of all, every play can be produced royalty-free. That’s right—there’s never a cost to produce one of our scripts, because we believe theatre is for everyone.
15-MINUTES OR LESS
Story: Best friends since childhood, Judy and Olivia decide to return to a quaint seaside town that they once visited on family vacations during their early teen years. Reminded of love's lost, choices made, and the fading of their youth, Judy and Olivia reaffirm their friendship; a play about two women who must look back before they can move forward.
Highlight: Winner of the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award for Best Stage Play.
Highlight: Adapted into the award-winning short film Bracelets.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their early 50's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Story: Moments after rejecting a marriage proposal, a woman is tempted by a somewhat obnoxious stranger she meets at a sidewalk café in Greece.
Highlight: Official Selection, In the Works, One Night Stand Theater
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, The Producer's Club
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their early 30's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
Story: On the hottest day of the year, five people suffering from different types of addiction each reach their breaking point while attending a healing retreat in the middle of nowhere.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 3f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Story: After his estranged father dies as a result of a drug addiction, Cooper is determined to carry out his father’s final wishes by embarking on a road trip to Omaha. Along for the ride is Shelley, who is aware that Cooper has been unfaithful and plans to end their relationship before they get home.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
I BET SHE HAS A PARTY TO GO TO
Story: After watching a beautiful, free-spirited woman roller skate through a city park, three women respond to the resentment they feel about her assumed carefree life.
Highlight: Featured in The Best 10-Minute Plays
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 4f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Story: Erica's relationship of ten years has ended without her knowing how or why. Lloyd's girlfriend has slept with all of his friends and two of his relatives. When Erica loses her parking ticket in the underground garage Lloyd is the new customer service manager of, their shattered lives and bruised hearts collide.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their early 30's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Story: Moments after she’s almost sexually assaulted by a classmate, high school student Vanessa Martin seeks solitude at the local swimming pool despite the late hour. There, a swim class instructor and fellow high school student named Zane Armstrong encourages Vanessa to face her fear of drowning but not before first sharing a scar and secrets of his own.
Highlight: Named a Top 15 finalist for the Billy Roche International Short Play Award
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in high school; contains content related to sexual assault
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
Story: Questioning how happy she is with her life and marriage, suburban housewife Claudia Veramonte shares a flirtatious but meaningful conversation with Tito Benavides, the beautiful young man who cleans her swimming pool.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Story: On the same day her boyfriend Jessie is released from a work camp, eighteen-year-old Alison Freeman receives a letter from her estranged mother who wants a second chance. Alison must decide whether to accept a marriage proposal from Jessie, continue living with her lonely Aunt Carla, or leave her small hometown to join her mother for a new life in New York.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 4f, 2M
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
FULL LENGTH
Story: Pensacola explores the lives of four Southern women. Trudy has been a single mother since her husband went to work one day and never came home. Since then, she has tried to find a cure for her loneliness while working as a cocktail waitress at The Tide Pool. Charlotte is married and has two daughters of her own. Recently, Charlotte suspects that her husband has been unfaithful and that their marriage is falling apart. Marie, a recent high school graduate, is having a difficult time deciding on the right career for herself and ponders over going to secretary school, competing for the title of Miss Florida, or becoming the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba. Always armed with the best gossip in town, Trudy’s best friend Berniece decides to end her affair with a younger man when a life-altering tragedy hits home. Pensacola is a powerful and heart-warming celebration of family, love and strength.
Highlight: Nominated for three Elly Awards by the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 4f, 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter; contains content related to violence
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