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La Posada (The Inn)

Product Code: L90000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 3m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Aurelio and Anita, an elderly Mexican-American couple, prepare their home to receive guests celebrating Las Posadas. This traditional Christmas custom involves the entire neighborhood reenacting the Holy Family's journey seeking shelter. Filled with music and nostalgia, Aurelio and Anita recall their first encounter. They transform back magically. We see them fall in love and get engaged, only to face El Nino, Anita's former fiancé. He takes exception to an "Americano" wooing away his girl. El Nino is a Mexican macho who won't accept defeat. So Aurelio and El Nino face off in a Mexican showdown where eating spicy "chiles" will win the hand of Anita.

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In Search Of Three Sillies

By Zinita Fowler.

Product Code: IC7000

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

Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

In this adaptation of the famous English folktale, we see Jack, an energetic young man who is about to ask the girl he loves to marry him. But when he meets her family, he is flabbergasted. They are faced with a problem that's so simple a little child could solve it—but they can't. "How silly can people be?" Jack wonders. If he can find three other people as silly as his sweetheart's family, he will return and marry her. This lively play portrays his search for three sillies. He finds them, and their stories make a hilarious play for audiences of all ages.

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Her Senior Year

Product Code: HD6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 3m., 5w., extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Blaire has everything—good looks, popularity and a brain. It's her senior year, and she's going to be valedictorian. No one is surprised when she is chosen homecoming queen. Her friends are delighted—everybody likes her. Then Blaire finds out that she has cancer. The play has fun, excitement and some tears. All but one of the characters are teenage. Audiences of all ages enjoy it. Young people see themselves; adults see their children in familiar situations and recall their own teen years. Her Senior Year makes you think.

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Uncool

Product Code: U24000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 3m., 6w., extras as desired.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In this teen comedy, Jenny is part of the popular crowd that rules the school, while Beth is the new girl trying desperately to fit in. Together they must come to terms with what it means to be cool, what is uncool and why it is so important to simply be yourself. Issues of self-worth, mutual respect and tolerance of those who are different are explored against a backdrop of humorous teen-oriented dialogue that will leave audiences dizzy with laughter.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $55.00/perf

What You Will

Product Code: W83000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 2w. (1 narrator which may be played by male or female.)

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This contemporary version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night uses pop culture to bring one of the Bard's best mixed-gender comedies to life, showing what happens to Viola when she finds herself shipwrecked and decides to disguise herself as her brother.

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Pandora's Revenge

Product Code: P64000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Just what sort of package has Marvin Hanover opened, he wonders, as he tries to sell insurance to Miss Thorndyke. First, she really isn't Miss Thorndyke—she's Ida Simpkins, and she doesn't actually live at the address she gave him over the phone. She seems to have more questions for Marvin than he ever saw on any application. Panicked by the evening news and her rundown neighborhood, she grills Marvin like a hamburger patty. Lines fly fast and ferociously in this cat-and-mouse adventure with Marvin wondering just who's the cat and who's the mouse.

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Barabbas ... Out Of Darkness

Product Code: BH7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Praise Group
Cast Size: 5m., 7w., flexible. Five performers serve as choral readers, using a choir and contemporary Christian music as desired.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A different look at the Easter story as seen through the eyes of Barabbas, the thief who had his life exchanged for the life of Jesus of Nazareth just before the crucifixion.

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Calabasas Street

Product Code: CA3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Calabasas Street follows a young boy named Domingo Sanchez who learns the true meaning of friendship when his baseball accidentally drops into the yard of La Vuida Martinez. All the children of the neighborhood are afraid of her. They think she's crazy because she searches through people's garbage and hauls it back to her house. Domingo soon discovers she collects junk and transforms it into art. This chance encounter becomes a lifelong friendship of sharing fun, stories and making Mexican piñatas.

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Lost In Tumblerock or, They Took the Wrong Road

Product Code: LJ9000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 7m., 8w., extras.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This comic melodrama is complete with rowdy ranch hands and beautiful French cancan dancers and will have the audience cheering the heroes and booing the villains.

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Seth's Anxiety

Product Code: SB9000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 5m., 14w., 5 any gender, extras (doubling possible).

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Seth finds a cure for his anxiety at a school bus stop where he meets a girl who has experienced his same fears and pains. The realization that his anxieties are shared by others sends him to his first day of middle school with a confident smile.

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