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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. 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
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  4. 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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  5. 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
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/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. The Taste of Sunrise

    The Taste of Sunrise

    By Suzan Zeder.

    Product Code: TL6000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4 to 5m., 5 to 6w., up to 10 either gender (including 1m. Deaf actor required and 1m. deaf actor strongly suggested.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    This bilingual play in American Sign Language or spoken English takes place in the mind and memory of a Deaf man. He journeys through his childhood from the fever dream that took his hearing, to the language of nature which he shares with his beloved father, to the deaf school where his mind explodes with the discovery of sign language. This title is a moving prequel to Suzan Zeder's acclaimed Mother Hicks.

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    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  8. Sunday Gold

    Sunday Gold

    By Joanna H. Kraus.

    Product Code: SC6000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Two 12-year-old girls, one white and one black, work at a gold mine and used to play together as children, but have been separated by slavery. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  9. Angel in the Night

    Angel in the Night

    By Joanna H. Kraus.

    Product Code: A61000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 4w., 1 girl (expandable to 9m., 7w., 1 girl.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    This drama about a young girl's courage is based on the true story of Marysia Pawlina Szul, a Polish Catholic teen, who saved the lives of four Jewish people during World War II. It reinforces the idea that one individual can make a difference. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  10. Mother Hicks

    Mother Hicks

    By Suzan Zeder.

    Product Code: MK4000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4 to 5m., 4w., with doubling.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    This play, set in Ware, Illinois during the Great Depression, is about three outsiders—a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language, chronicles their journey to find themselves, and each other, in a troubled time.

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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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