Drama Scripts - Plays for Kids, Teenagers & Youth

Art Drama Scripts Terms

High schools - selected scripts.

Elementary schools - selected play scripts.

Discounted drama packages.

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• Delivery by email

• Buying for a school

• Payment

• Performance rights

• Additional performances/touring

• Rights to print/copy for cast

• Changes to the script

• Performance video or audio

• Suggestions for music

• Arranging postal delivery

• Returns

Delivery by email

To reduce customers' post, packing and handling costs and ensure quick delivery, we provide deliveries by email.  

When we receive the payment, we dispatch as soon as possible - usually within 24 hours of receiving a payment (or clearing the cheque). 

Unless you provide a different email, you will receive the play script to your PayPal registered email address.  We email the scripts as attachments to the emails. 

In case you do not receive the script by email within 24 hours of payment:

1. Please add sales@artdramascripts.com to your safe email contacts.
2. Email sales@artdramascripts.com or use our online form to let us know as soon as possible. 

If we encounter problems with the email delivery, we try to make all effort to use appropriate means to contact you and provide the delivery by email or other means (post).  In case we cannot provide the delivery, we provide a full refund.

Buying for a school

You may use your personal PayPal or card to buy the script for a school or other organization.

If you do, please provide the name and address of the school/organization you are buying for in the "Instructions to merchant" section when shopping online.

Or, you may email sales@artdramascripts.com 
to request a school/organization INVOICE / RECEIPT. 
Please make sure you provide enough details for us
to match your request with your purchase (preferably send the email from your PayPal registered email address).

Payment

Secure transactions:  We accept payments via PayPal (PayPal balances, credit cards, debit cards, bank balances) in all PayPal supported currencies. See PayPal for list of accepted credit/debit cards and other PayPal supported payment methods in your country.

Contact us for quotes and an invoice in other than quoted currency.  We may accept UK cheques & international bank money orders.

Please contact us for payment details prior to sending any cheque payment.

Performance rights

Purchased script copy will be provided for a buyer for the purpose of preparing a performance made to paying or non-paying audiences.

The play script may be performed publicly in whole or in part up to 3 times within 4 years from the purchase of the script copy.

Public reading - readers' theatre - is also deemed a public performance.

Public workshop (e.g. at summer camps) is considered a public performance in case the play is performed by workshop attendees in front of the people not attending the workshop (spectators).

The name of Robert Reed as the author of the play has to be credited on all performance promotional and other materials.

Additional performances and touring

In general, if you wish to tour with the play or perform the play publicly more than 3 times, you need to contact us to obtain rights for additional performances. 

We now also allow schools and theatres to purchase multiple items of a play script online to obtain rights for additional performances. E.g. if you plan to perform the play 9 times, you may buy 3 items of that particular play script.  If we have not sent you the play script already, we will send you the script by email as one item. If you are planning 10-12 performances, you need to purchase 4 items. If this arrangement does not suit you, please contact us for an individual quote.

Rights to print/copy
for cast

The buyer will be allowed to print and/or copy the script for cast, technicians and producers of the initial 3 performances (one copy/print-out per each member).

The copyright notice from the page 2 of the script must be preserved on all print-outs/copies of the script.

All the work contained in the scripts is copyrighted by the author Robert Reed.  Unless permitted, all rights are strictly reserved.

No resale or redistribution of these print-outs/copies and no additional printing or copying is permitted without our permission. No parts of the scripts may be stored in an electronic retrieval system, recreated, re-sold, lent, hired out or otherwise transferred or circulated in electronic or other form, or by any means without the prior written consent of the author.

Uploading of the script onto the Internet constitutes a major breach of Robert Reed's copyright.

Uploading of the script into an electronic database, including, without limitation, school Intranets and library databases, is strictly prohibited. 

Any person and organization who does any unauthorized act in relation to this work or allows others to do so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Changes to the script

We allow the performer to make minor changes in the script for the initial three licensed performances of the playscript.  That does not constitute the right to adapt the play or create derivative works or present the work as his/her own.  Robert Reed has to be credited as the one and only author of the play.  The play title may not be changed.

Performance video or audio

We allow the performer one video or audio copy of any of the first three licensed performances of the play script.  Permission and/or licenses from us will need to be obtained to upload the video or audio files onto the Internet or to distribute, broadcast or stream the video or audio in any way by any means, or allow others to do so, for both profit or non-profit activities.

Inform us prior to loading the performance audio / video to the Internet.*

*We allow that free of charge on school websites or on www.youtube.com for non-commercial purposes. Please let us know if you wish to upload your performance video onto the Internet.

Suggestions for music

Some of the music suggested in the play scripts' production notes may be under copyright. Rights to play the suggested music are not included in our play scripts. The buyer will have to obtain all necessary licences or use  royalty-free music.

We do not provide any music files, music CDs or music sheets with our play scripts.

Arranging postal delivery 

We deliver the scripts by email and we do not charge postage, packing or handling for deliveries.

To receive scripts by post, please contact us to enquire about the postage and packing price. Unless arranged otherwise, we post the copy of the script on the CD.

Returns

In the unlikely event you decide the play does not suit the needs of your performance group or in case you are not happy with the script in any other way, we provide a full hassle- free money back guarantee. We do not charge any administration costs or any other fees for returns. In such a case, inform us within 14 days of receipt. 

Please contact us concerning the above term or any other questions you may have.

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last updated June 13, 2012

RULES IN BRIEF:

All drama scripts purchased from us include:

• delivery by email within 24 hours of payment 
• rights to perform
  the script to audiences - whether paying or non-paying - 
  up to 3 performances (public performances, public readings, school assemblies, amdram events, professional theatrical productions) within 4 years of purchase  
• rights to copy the script  for cast, technicians and producers (one copy per one cast member, technician or producer).
  The copyright notice from the script must be preserved on all copies.
• suggestions for music (some of the suggested music may be under copyright - rights to play suggested music are not included in our scripts - the buyer will have to obtain those individually or use  royalty-free music) 
• rights for minor script  hanges (not adaptation rights) 
• rights for one non-profit performance video or audio

FAQ 

* Delivery policy for ebay.co.uk auctions:

Although this is not our preferred option, we can list any play script on ebay.co.uk for the Price displayed online next to each item + £ 6.00 (Postage, Packaging & Handling Fees). Ebay items would be delivered on a CD by post.  Delivery time is 2-3 weeks from clearing the funds. Please Contact Us if  you wish to purchase any play script from us via  ebay.co.uk.

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