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Plays on Principle: Ten 10-Minute Plays PN9000

Plays on Principle: Ten 10-Minute Plays

By Pat Montley.

Product Code: PN9000

  • Collection

Rights and availability
Please note: The titles in this collection must be licensed through the collection book itself. None of the titles within have a separate playbook.

* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

$10.95 /book

Min. Royalty Rate: $15/perf

In stock

Synopsis

What gives meaning to life? What do the rich owe the poor? How can we disagree without being disagreeable? Who deserves forgiveness? Is it ever OK to compromise our values? Which is more important—justice or mercy? Does the end ever justify the means? How can we move beyond racial stereotypes? Whose life is worth living and who gets to decide that? What would you sacrifice to save the earth? 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.

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Details

  • Status

    In stock

  • Type of Show Collection
  • Product Code PN9000
  • Pages 96
  • Min. Royalty Rate $15/perf
  • Cost $10.95

Categories

  • Target Audience High School | College and Adult
  • Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre
  • ISBN(13) 9781619592865
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

Included Titles

Enough! By Pat Montley.

Using various methods of persuasion and intimidation, a homeless beggar insists a comfortable capitalist share their wealth and power.

  • Product Code: E98000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2 any gender.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Life/Choice By Pat Montley.

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

  • Product Code: LN7000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2w.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Suckled by Wolves By Pat Montley.

Two men—with varying motivations and degrees of resolve—prepare to confront their former abuser, now a bishop, with an ultimatum.

  • Product Code: S4T000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2m.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Just Deserts By Pat Montley.

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.

  • Product Code: J80000
  • Genre: Comedy|Drama
  • Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

March! By Pat Montley.

Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells challenges suffragist Alice Paul on her plans for the Women’s March of 1913.

  • Product Code: MS3000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2w.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Voting Your Conscience By Pat Montley.

One chief poll judge tries to persuade the other to change election results.

  • Product Code: V48000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2 any gender.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Foxholes By Pat Montley.

Two soldiers facing death try to find meaning in life.

  • Product Code: FG7000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2 any gender.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Madrigal in Black and White By Pat Montley.

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.

  • Product Code: MS4000
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Cast Size: 4w.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: N/A

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The Cutting By Pat Montley.

An interminably ill man tries to persuade his daughter-caretaker to help him die—a request complicated by the ambivalent nature of their past and present relationship.

  • Product Code: CT4000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

Rachel Carson Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea By Pat Montley.

Environmentalist Rachel Carson, tempted by a mysterious visitor from the sea, must choose between her own health/happiness and her work to save the earth.

  • Product Code: RE8000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Cast Size: 2m., 1w.

    Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

  • Approx. Run Time: 10 minutes

License Available:
Through Collection

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Location City State Opens Closes
GFAC Flint Michigan 3/14/2025 3/16/2025

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