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Paper or Plastic: The Ice Storm

Paper or Plastic: The Ice Storm

By Werner Trieschmann.

Product Code: PL9000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: Up to 2m., 2 to 5w., 9 to 14 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

As an ice storm approaches, Sarah, a cashier, is hastily given—maybe tricked into?—the job of assistant manager. She is happy about the promotion until she realizes that with great power comes even more grocery store insanity. There are stubborn customers, unruly kids, the cane-wielding head of Skybell Ice Cream, striking baggers and a mysterious figure known as "El Diablo." Will there be anything left on the shelves? Will Sarah survive? The answers and laughs are in the forecast of this play!

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Farmageddon and the Undercover Crop

Farmageddon and the Undercover Crop

By Victoria Sayeg.

Product Code: FF6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School
Cast Size: 1m., 1w., 20 to 24 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Everyone loves a good crop circle—that is, everyone but world-renowned peanut planter Farmer Carter. He is devastated to learn his entire year's yield of peanuts has been damaged by someone—or something—just a day before the circus comes to town! With the help of his wife and their junk-food-addicted twin daughters, Farmer Carter hires a private investigator to get to the bottom of this perplexing peanut puzzle.

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Little Scrooge

Little Scrooge

By Patricia Barry Rumble. Based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Product Code: LL4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | TYA
Cast Size: 2 to 4m., 3 to 7w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In this extremely creative, kid-friendly adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic, The Ghost of Christmas Past (a surfer dude), the Ghost of Christmas Present (a beautiful spirit with an attitude) and the Ghost of Christmas Future (an eerie figure in white) help young Eben Scrooge to discover the true meaning of Christmas.

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The Hundred Dresses

The Hundred Dresses

By Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills. Based on the book by Eleanor Estes.

Product Code: HH1000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 3 to 5m., 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Wanda, a second-grader, wears a faded blue dress every day, but she tells her classmates that she has a hundred dresses at home. Soon Wanda's classmates make a game of teasing her about her hundred dresses until she doesn't come to school one day, leaving just an empty seat. As feelings of guilt overtake the children, they decide they must find out what happened to Wanda and make amends for the way they treated her. Bullying, friendship and forgiveness are touched upon in this adaptation.

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Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad

Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad

By Peter Manos.

Product Code: OA4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2 to 10m., 2 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play combines stories of men and women of the Underground Railroad who were active in the fight against slavery. Famous participants like Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe and other lesser-known heroes are included in this tale that celebrates a time when Americans were at their courageous best, supporting one another, regardless of background, ethnicity or gender.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

By Tonya Hays. Adapted from the play by Edmond Rostand.

Product Code: CQ7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 5w., at least 4 gender neutral.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Cyrano is besotted with the lovely Roxane, and yet, because of his enormous nose, he believes that he can never truly win her, so he lives with this painful secret of unrequited love. He befriends the handsome Christian and helps him woo Roxane with elegant love letters, living his love vicariously through Christian. This passionate adventure takes us on a journey through the streets of Paris, the battlefield of Arras and the peaceful convent, where this beautiful story reaches its exquisite but heart-wrenching conclusion.

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Wanda the Psychic Wombat

Wanda the Psychic Wombat

By Victoria Sayeg.

Product Code: WH7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School
Cast Size: 4 to 11m., 6 to 13w., 7 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Wanda is the last psychic wombat on Earth, and she is struggling to run her fortune-telling business. She considers selling her shop to some shady-looking businesspeople, but a mysterious wombat helps her discover that things aren't always as they seem and that, with a little help from her friends, she just may be able to change what's in the cards.

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The Perfect Ending

The Perfect Ending

By B. Dwayne Craft.

Product Code: PL8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 9 to 11m., 12 to 16w., 2 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Mother is well on her way to having the perfect dinner party, but one thing stands in her way—the end of the world as we know it! Join her as she juggles all types of zany, unexpected guests in an attempt to maintain a perfect house and to be the absolute perfect hostess, right up until the very last moment. Will the world come to an end, or will Mother get to have her perfect dinner party?

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Black Sash

Black Sash

By Sarah Grammar, Emily Overmyer, Sarah Pendleton and Tonya Hays.

Product Code: BL6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 4 to 7m., 7 to 21w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play celebrates the work of the Black Sash women's organization, an independent, non-governmental human rights organization that has worked tirelessly for justice and equality in South Africa for more than 55 years. This historical drama will enlighten and empower audiences through the celebration of the organization's victories and, finally, in Nelson Mandela's release.

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Voodoo Macbeth

Voodoo Macbeth

By Tonya Hays. Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Product Code: V45000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 3 to 5m., 3 to 9w., 6 to 8 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Shakespeare's classic tragedy comes to life in a unique way. The setting is in New Orleans where Marie Laveau invites everyone to come and watch this tragic tale. The use of puppetry, voodoo dolls and gris-gris add to the surreal setting. Dead characters appearing as zombies from the voodoo tradition lend an eerie, evil ambience to the entire macabre tale.

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