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  1. The Edge of Peace

    The Edge of Peace

    By Suzan Zeder.

    Product Code: E84000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 5m., 6w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    This final play in the acclaimed Ware Trilogy is set in the same tiny town of Ware, Illinois, and follows many of the same characters as they spin the conclusion of their stories. Set in 1945 in the last days of WWII, this play deals with the impact on a family and a community after a young man from the town is declared missing in action and the soldier's little brother refuses to believe what seems inevitable. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Selkie

    Selkie

    By Laurie Brooks.

    Product Code: SW7000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | TYA
    • 3m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    In Scotland, selkies transform into lasses on Midsummer's Eve and dance on the beach. This play chronicles the story of a 16-year-old who discovers a pelt that unlocks the mystery foretold. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  3. 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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  4. Keeping Mr. Lincoln

    Keeping Mr. Lincoln

    By Sandra Fenichel Asher.

    Product Code: K36000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1 to 9m., 1 to 4w., 2 to 14 either gender. Extras as desired.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    This play celebrates Lincoln's life through his own words and those of people who knew him in scenes from his Kentucky childhood, Indiana youth, and Illinois and D.C. adulthood. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Battledrum

    Battledrum

    Book and lyrics by Doug Cooney. Music by Lee Ahlin.

    Product Code: BC8000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 1w. with doubling. May be expanded to up to 10m., 3w.
    • 55 min.
    A 10-year-old Confederate boy named Rufus has been orphaned after his family's farm is burned to the ground. With nowhere else to turn, he tags along with a Union troop as the "second drummer, on reserve." Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. The Match Girl's Gift: A Christmas Story

    The Match Girl's Gift: A Christmas Story

    By Laurie Brooks.

    Product Code: MF6000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 3w., optional ensemble of up to 8 children.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    On Christmas Eve 1898, in the heart of New York City, a ragged little girl, Lizzie, is huddled by the steps of an elegant brownstone. When her Gran brings her a gift of "waking dreams" that help her imagine what might be, Lizzie goes into the grand house and offers a unique gift to the family inside. Encouraged by her friends, Lizzie recognizes her own beauty and realizes that without our dreams for the future, we are without hope. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  7. I Never Saw Another Butterfly

    I Never Saw Another Butterfly

    Based on the play by Celeste Raspanti. Book and lyrics by Joseph Robinette. Music by E.A. Alexander.

    Product Code: I03000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8m., 5w., 8 children. With doubling, 3m., 4w., 4 children.
    • 90 min.
    This new musical version brings an added dimension to the story of the children of Terezin, a ghetto under Nazi rule during WWII. More than 5,000 drawings, poems and prose pieces were secretly produced by the children in the concentration camp. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  8. Nothing Is the Same

    Nothing Is the Same

    By Y York.

    Product Code: N56000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 1w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    On the island of O'hau, on December 7th, 1941, four young boys' lives will be changed forever. School has stopped all together, they learn to spot enemy planes and have become wary of their Japanese neighbors. Will outside challenges force endings to friendships? Learn More
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  9. A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

    A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

    By Laurie Brooks.

    Product Code: LD5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie, Charles Ingalls backtracks his family to Iowa, to take over the running of a hotel. A wealthy Mrs. Starr offers to adopt Laura Ingalls to ease their burden. Laura must decide whether to leave Ma, Pa, Mary and Carrie in this play about enduring family bonds. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  10. 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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