The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Play Script

A full-length play script adapts The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into scenes with dialogue, narrator lines, and stage directions for a class performance.

Grades: Grades 1–5, Elementary
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Apr 27, 2022

Subject: Reading, ELA
Topic: Wizard of Oz, Play Script
Resource types: Activities
Preparation: Print ready

From the author

About this resource

A thirty-five-page play script adapts L. Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' into a full stage production script — organized by act and scene, with a cast list of over 25 roles from Dorothy and Toto through the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Lion, Wicked Witch, and Winged Monkeys — for a class or school performance. Each scene combines narrator lines, character dialogue, and stage directions (lighting cues, sound effects, entrances and exits) so a teacher can assign roles and rehearse the story as a live performance rather than read it as prose. A short introduction for teachers explains how a school play builds confidence and teamwork and notes that every child can take a role on stage or behind the scenes in props, costumes, sound, or lighting. Published by the UK company Guinea Pig Education, the script uses British English spelling conventions throughout.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Student can perform an assigned character role using scripted dialogue and stage directions.
Student can follow the plot structure of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through a scripted performance.

Teaching tips

Assign non-performing roles (props, costumes, sound, lighting) to students who prefer working backstage, since the introduction explicitly frames this as part of the play's value.
Use the printed stage directions as a rehearsal checklist for lighting and sound cues rather than leaving them to be improvised.
Note that the script is offered 'as a starting point' for adaptation, so trim scenes or combine minor roles as needed for a shorter class performance.

Skills covered

Script reading and performance — students memorize and deliver character dialogue with stage directions for lighting, sound, and movement cues.
Character role interpretation — students embody a specific character (e.g., Dorothy, Scarecrow, Wicked Witch) across a multi-scene narrative arc.
Collaborative production roles — students not cast as performers can take on props, costumes, sound, or lighting responsibilities within the same production.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How closely does this script follow the plot of the original Wizard of Oz story?

It is described as adapted from Baum's original book by Sally Anne Jones and is explicitly offered 'for you to adapt for your class or school performance,' so it follows the familiar plot beats (the cyclone, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, the Wicked Witch, the silver shoes) but is intended as a flexible starting point a teacher can further trim or adjust rather than a fixed, unabridged transcript.