Drama Story Ideas

Drama premises for collaborative storytelling. Each idea is a kitchen-table situation — write what your group is unwilling to say.

1. Three siblings discover their late mother kept a second family in another town.
2. A teacher recognises a former student in a missing persons report.
3. A retired carer is contacted by the children of someone she cared for thirty years ago.
4. A school reunion is organised by someone who wasn't at the school.
5. A funeral is interrupted by a stranger claiming to be the deceased's wife.
6. A father reads his daughter's wedding speech and realises it is about someone else.
7. A grandmother takes her grandchildren to a graveyard and points at her own headstone.
8. A divorce settlement is broken by a forgotten letter.
9. A family Christmas is hosted by someone none of the family invited.
10. A landlord inherits a tenant and a thirty-year-old grudge.
11. A retired headteacher recognises a former pupil as the new vicar.
12. A single mother is offered a job by the woman her ex-husband left her for.
13. A small village is asked to vote on whether to allow a returning resident back.
14. A choir leader realises one of the new members is her birth mother.
15. A widow agrees to write her late husband's biography and discovers another wife.
16. A doctor's diagnosis lands on her own father's file.
17. A retired actor is asked to play the part of his own brother in a documentary.
18. A son inherits his father's allotment and the gardener.
19. A pub landlord is told the pub is being inherited by his estranged daughter.
20. Two estranged sisters are forced to share custody of an old cat.