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  1. Cully's Gold: A Young Girl's Struggle with Temptation and Ambition, 1873

    Cully's Gold: A Young Girl's Struggle with Temptation and Ambition, 1873

    By Carol Korty and Susa Wuorinen.

    Product Code: CG6000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 4w. or 4m., 4w. Extras as desired.
    • 60 min.
    In this coming-of-age play set in rural coastal Maine, Sadie resolves her dilemmas in confrontations with her best friend, her father and the school, as she courageously begins to chart her own course. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  2. Bud, Not Buddy

    Bud, Not Buddy

    Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.

    Product Code: BC7000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8m., 3w. with doubling.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    Set in Michigan during the 1930s, this title tells the story of 10-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes, and his quest to find his father. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Kara in Black

    Kara in Black

    By Max Bush

    Product Code: K32000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 7 to 9m., 10 to 13w. (Fifteen of these characters are between the ages of 16 and 19.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 95 min.
    Kara's older sister is leaving to join her Army unit in Kuwait to prepare for the possible invasion of Iraq. After thinking about such things for the first time in her life, Kara begins to oppose her sister going, and the impending war itself. Throughout the play Kara struggles with her feelings of isolation, frustration, fear, ignorance and helplessness to begin to understand her own views and to find the courage—against the opposing voices—to express herself publicly on matters important to her. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Looking Over the President's Shoulder

    Looking Over the President's Shoulder

    By James Still.

    Product Code: LC2000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Looking Over the President's Shoulder is told from the unique perspective of the Chief Butler who served four U.S. presidents and their families: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Famous guests through the years included Winston Churchhill, Marian Anderson, Errol Flynn and the king and queen of England. Set on the eve of his last day on the job, Fields reflects on his 21 years of service to his country with humor and pride. He was a man with a story to tell and this tour-de-force for one actor gives Fields the chance to tell it. Learn More
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  5. The Rememberer R68000

    The Rememberer

    By Steven Dietz. Based on the unpublished memoir As My Sun Now Sets by Joyce Simmons Cheeka, as told to Werdna Phillips Finley.

    Product Code: R68000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 13m., 12w. (may double to as few as 9m., 8w., plus possible dancers and musicians.)
    • 90 min.
    This is the true story of Joyce Cheeka, a young Squaxin Indian girl, who is forcibly taken from her home and placed in a government-run school in 1911. Joyce succeeds in forming a bridge between this new world and the world of her ancestors. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. The Music Lesson MD8000

    The Music Lesson

    By Tammy Ryan.

    Product Code: MD8000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 4w.
    • 100 min.
    This is the story of Irena and her husband, two musicians who escaped the war in Sarajevo to start a new life in Pittsburgh. Shifting elegantly from past to present and resonating with powerful music, this is the tale of two countries, two families, two generations and the ways they teach and heal each other. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Cyrano

    Cyrano

    By Barry Kornhauser. Adapted from the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

    Product Code: CB3000

    • Comedy | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 16m., 5w. with doubling, but many roles are gender flexible, easily expanded.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 150 min.
    Cyrano! His wit is as sharp as his sword, the enormity of his talent, intellect and passion matched only by the enormity of his, well, nose. The uniquely endowed protagonist is given a fresh face in this poignant and playful paean to panache, written in rhyming couplets. Romance rules the day in this story of his classic love triangle with the exquisite Roxane and the handsome and earnest, but verbally challenged, Christian. Learn More
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  8. The Sins of Sor Juana

    The Sins of Sor Juana

    By Karen Zacarías.

    Product Code: SG1000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 4w. (10 characters are played by 7 actors-doubling necessary to the story. May be expanded with chorus, court and nuns.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Sor Juana In Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. Ezigbo, the Spirit Child

    Ezigbo, the Spirit Child

    An Igbo story as told by Adaora Nzelibe Schmiedl. Dramatized for the stage by Max Bush.

    Product Code: E69000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1 to 3m., 7 to 8w., plus extras.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Long ago, the wife of a powerful chief longed for a child, but her womb was possessed by the spirit of an Ogbanje, an invisible spirit-child. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  10. And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

    And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

    By James Still.

    Product Code: A84000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 4w. (2m., 2w. with doubling.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.

    And Then They Came for Me is a unique theatrical experience: a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss with live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War II. This play incorporates live actors, videotape, and a CD for each performance.

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    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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