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The Man Who Died and Went to Heaven

Product Code: M47000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

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Product Code: SX4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 2m., 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A teenage girl searches for her birth mother after learning that her adoptive mother has a terminal illness.

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Product Code: SY2000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA | Senior Theatre | Touring Group | Praise Group
Cast Size: 4m., 7w.

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

A family copes with the loss of their wife and mother at holiday time.

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Adapted by David Grote. Based on the satire Love of One's Neighbor by Leonid Andreyev.

Product Code: HD5000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 14+ actors, flexible.

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

A crowd gathers to watch a man trapped on top of a tower and speculates on the outcome. The crowd seems more concerned about themselves than the man on the tower.

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The Infamous Soothing System of Professor Maillard

Adapted by Raleigh Marcell Jr. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.

Product Code: IC8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 14+ actors, flexible.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

The play begins when the hero of the story decides to visit the private sanitarium operated by the renowned Professor Maillard. The professor is famous for his method of treating the insane, “The Soothing System.” But Professor Maillard has not been heard from for some time. What happens during the play, and the activities of the unusual characters, are comical and frightening—with an ending that may come as a surprise.

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Lantern In The Wind

Product Code: LH5000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A former partner of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid gives an interview to a magazine reporter leaving some doubt about the fate of one of the famous robbers.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

Requiem for the Innkeeper

Product Code: R28000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 4w. (extras.)

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

An elderly innkeeper reminisces about the first Christmas Eve, when he had to tell Mary and Joseph there was no room in the inn.

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The Planet of the Perfectly Awful People

Product Code: P46000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

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The Tale of the Frog Prince

Book by Kathy Hotchner. Lyrics by Bill Roser, Steve and Kathy Hotchner. Music by Bill Roser.

Product Code: T48000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | TYA
Cast Size: 3m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In the heart of a magical swamp lives a crusty prince-turned-frog who wants to become human again but, as he sings it, "No one wants to kiss a toad." Into this swamp comes a noisy, haughty royal family with young Rosalie, whose kiss turns the frog back into a (very surprised!) prince. Your audience will learn as much of a lesson as the prince since they will participate equally in the action.

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Once Upon a Shoe or The Rhymes and Mimes of Mother Goose and Her Traveling Troubadours

Product Code: O29000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 7 to 30, flexible.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home—a large, comfortable shoe—and move to an old sneaker "across the tracks." The children decide to "put on a show" to save their shoe, and in the best Garlandooney tradition, they proceed to enact eight of Mother Goose's best poems. The shoe is saved, and Mother Goose and her troupe are off to Hollywood.

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