R. Eugene Jackson is one of America's most frequently produced authors of plays for young audiences, including musicals like Babes in Toyland and Rock 'N' Roll Santa and non-musicals like The Wizard of Oz and Rumpelstiltskin is My Name. Ghoul School provides hilarious fun for audiences of all ages (nothing in the play is too frightening for small children). Scenes from Macbeth add to the fun. The cast may be all adults, or as young as junior high.

Four ghosts (Boo! and his wife, Whoo; Chains; and Lazy Bones, a skeleton) haunted a theatre so frighteningly that they scared away everybody—cast, crew, directors, and audiences. So, for many years the ghouls have "lived" happily in the vacant building. But now—DISASTER—an acting troupe decides to present a play in the theatre. When they show up, the ghouls try to scare them away—but they have forgotten how! (Chains has lost her chains and now tries to scare people by rattling ropes.) Does this mean they will have to return to Ghoul School to learn to be scary again?

2-act comedy; deserted theatre stage; present time.

Other Jackson youth plays: Amazing Grace and Her Jellybean Tree, Coffey Pott Meets the Wolfman, Eager Beaver Builds a Dam, Little Red Riding Wolf, The Princess and the Goblin, Rumpelstiltskin, Wheels, Who Can Fix the Dragon's Wagon?, Wind in the Willows

See also: Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem