Death Valley: A Love Story

Product Code: DH8000

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Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

In the winter of 2003, during their first glorious year of being in love, Carol and David spend a vacation week in Death Valley. On their return home, he is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Months of chemotherapy follow, culminating in a bone marrow transplant that goes awry, ending David’s life. Throughout their ordeal, Carol chronicles her passage through love, loss, grief and recovery. This play grew from the real journals, photographs and collages that make this universal story poignantly specific.

Madrigal in Black and White

Product Code: MS4000

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A chance encounter between two young women—one Black, one white—escalates into the beginning of a relationship, despite the warnings of their uncensored alter-egos bearing the burden of social history.

Plays on Principle: Ten 10-Minute Plays

Product Code: PN9000

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What gives meaning to life? Who deserves forgiveness? Is it ever OK to compromise our values? Which is more important—justice or mercy? How can we move beyond racial stereotypes? Whose life is worth living and who gets to decide that? These are some of the questions posed by this collection, whose characters—parents and children, friends and lovers, colleagues and classmates, constant comrades and scary strangers—grapple with injustice, love, political passion, fear of dying and the curse of conscience.

Life/Choice

Product Code: LN7000

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

An older pro-life supporter and a young pro-choice supporter confront each other at a rally.

Just Deserts

Product Code: J80000

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A teen actor plays devil’s advocate in rehearsal for The Merchant of Venice to arouse “the quality of mercy”—and maybe more—in his leading lady.