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Product Code: W86000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

Just Desserts

Product Code: J35000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 2w. (3, may be expaned to 5 w.)

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Set in a rural Kentucky home near the end of the 19th century, this poignant drama recalls the era after the Civil War when women in Kentucky took action against the injustice of English common law regarding property rights, wages, and possessions.

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The Wright Brothers First Flight

Script by John de Lancie and Nat Segaloff.

Product Code: W87000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 2m., 4 either gender.

Limited Streaming Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history with their first sustained flight over Kitty Hawk, N.C., in their heavier-than-air contraption nicknamed the Wright Flyer, now recognized as the first airplane

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The Gift

Product Code: G69000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 7m., 6w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

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The Cay

By Dr. Gayle Cornelison. From the book by Theodore Taylor.

Product Code: C90000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 2m. (voices.)

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Eleven-year-old Phillip is rescued at sea and cared for by a huge, very old, black man named Timothy. Phillip learns that the color of one's skin does not determine a person's worth in the world.

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

By James Glossman from the story by Mark Twain.

Product Code: MB7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: large flexible, 30+

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Making thorough use of Twain's own language and rapid-fire storytelling style, this classic comic tale of hypocrisy and its consequences takes us to the self-righteous town of Hadleyburg.

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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

Product Code: MB8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action.

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Things Can Always Be Worse!

Product Code: TB5000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 30 roles for a minimum of 8 actors. may be further expanded.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Rich with Jewish tradition, this is the story of an argumentative family living in a tiny hut who, following a Rabbi's advice, bring their animals into the hut.

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Smoke

By Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: SD6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A disquisition on cigars, memory and the Sabbath.

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'Til Death Do Us Plots

By Julianne Bernstein.

Product Code: TB4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

Newly divorced and "dead" Art and Lucille are stuck for eternity and some everlasting "kvetching" in a double coffin.

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