Recommended plays for a high school cultural festival: popular, crowd-pleasing ideas

Boys Over Flowers

Musical “Hana Yori Dango” (Boys Over Flowers) Yuuya Matsushita, Mackenyu, Jin Shirasu, Ryuji Kamiyama

Hana Yori Dango, which was adapted from a shoujo manga into a TV drama and then a film, has also been made into a musical! Using that as a reference, how about performing it at your school festival? A realistic story performed by students might be even more moving! You can use your school uniforms as costumes as they are, and it seems easy to adapt the story, so it’s highly recommended.

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Hane Keisuke

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Chibi Maruko-chan

Stage play “Chibi Maruko-chan” opens! The boys of Class 3-4, eight years later, take the stage—does the friendship between Sugiyama-kun and Ōno-kun still hold strong!? A string of classic hits and a song show, too. Chibi Maruko-chan THE STAGE: “High School Days.”

Let individuality shine! Here are some ideas inspired by Chibi Maruko-chan.

When you think of Chibi Maruko-chan, it’s not just the classmates—each family member and local resident has a unique personality, which makes it so entertaining.

In particular, some characters have distinctive catchphrases or sentence endings, which should be easy to incorporate.

The gap of high school students playing elementary school kids could also be a great hook to capture the audience’s interest.

Try acting while weaving everyday, ordinary moments into your script.

Mom

High School Play 'Mama' (2015 Biwako National High School Cultural Festival / Saga Higashi High School Drama Club) Long-distance Fixed Camera

“Mama,” a work by teacher Iyadomi☆Kōsei, who is active in various plays and commercial scripts.

It is one of the pieces performed by the drama club of Saga Higashi High School in Saga Prefecture, which stages productions not only on campus but in various locations.

The play portrays the story of a mother who raised her daughter alone in a single-mother household, centering on the theme of “what it means to live” in the face of the imminent death of a loved one.

The script written by Teacher Iyadomi has no ending, and the Saga Higashi drama club reportedly came up with their own conclusion.

Reading the script and creating the ending you would want for this mother and daughter could make for a wonderful memory at a culture festival or school festival, don’t you think?

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SAKI

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Chain of Flowers

Chain of Flowers (Full Version)

I’d like to introduce a work by the famous author Kanae Minato.

Published in 2011 and adapted into a film in 2013, it’s a piece whose characteristic Minato-style foreshadowing and structure I found outstanding.

Although each character’s storyline appears to stand alone, it actually serves as foreshadowing and becomes a key to the narrative.

So if you were to stage it as a play, say for a school festival, you would need to think very carefully about the structure.

However, precisely because it’s demanding, I believe the sense of accomplishment for the cast and the satisfaction it would give the audience would be immeasurable.

The Little Prince

The Little Prince

The Little Prince, a fairy tale by Saint-Exupéry loved by people all over the world.

Although it was originally written as a children’s story, it is filled with deep insights into life and words that resonate straight to the heart, making it more than suitable to be performed as a play for a school cultural festival.

Darkness in Shangri-La

Stage Play 'Tougen Anki' - Nerima Arc - Public Dress Rehearsal: Second Stage Adaptation Starring Aran Abe and Others

Based on the well-known folktale Momotaro, Togen Anki is a work that depicts the battle between the descendants of ogres and the descendants of Momotaro.

Since the story unfolds while incorporating elements of the original folktale, it gives the impression that a wide range of people can get into it.

The distinctive characters are also a major draw, so let’s carefully consider how to portray them in a way that makes them appealing.

As the narrative shifts into battles, it’s crucial to emphasize the action scenes and draw viewers into the world above all else.

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Crayon Shin-chan

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Some people say Shin-chan’s outrageous antics go too far, but Crayon Shin-chan is hugely popular with kids.

The TV anime is of course funny, but in the movies Shinnosuke is gentle, brave, responsible, and a real model student.

Is it the same phenomenon as Gian from Doraemon turning into a nice guy in the movies? Staging a Crayon Shin-chan play sounds fun, too.

With the children playing the roles of Dad and Mom as well, it would feel very homey.

I wonder if everyone wants to play Shin-chan?