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  1. Christmas, Virtually

    Christmas, Virtually

    By Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus.

    Product Code: CS7000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce | Satire
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 3 to 10m., 3 to 15w., 1 to 11 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 65 min.
    This online theatrical event is designed to be rehearsed and performed on Zoom. These 12 delightful scenes range in tone from sweet and silly to heartfelt to poignant. Dealing with life during the holidays, everyone can relate to what these characters are going through. From a famous reindeer in therapy because of his nose, to a soldier sending a holiday message home, to Hanukkah struggling to find meaning in the Christmas blitz, this show can be reordered, trimmed, cut and adapted to YOUR audience. Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean we can’t have Christmas, Virtually. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. When January Feels Like Summer

    When January Feels Like Summer

    By Cori Thomas.

    Product Code: WJ7000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 1w., 1 pre-op transgender (m. to w.) who can be played by either gender (prefer transgender).
    • 120 min.
    Three African-American men, a transgender woman and her sister stumble toward the possibilities of being seen, being heard and being loved. One unusually warm January day, their stories of outreach and awareness intertwine at a convenience store in Harlem. By the end of the play, these five characters are living proof that everyone deserves love. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Principal Principle

    Principal Principle

    By Joe Zarrow.

    Product Code: PM1000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 105 min.
    Armed only with her dreams of making the world a better place and six weeks of training, Kay quits her corporate job to teach English on Chicago's South Side. The principal announces a new program whereby teachers' jobs are linked to high-stakes standardized testing in terrifying new ways. Kay wakes up to harsh realities: the copy machine is broken, the system is broken and the spirits of her fellow teachers are broken. Or are they? Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Hamlet or Does Father Reeeeeeally Know Best?

    Hamlet or Does Father Reeeeeeally Know Best?

    By Nancy Linehan Charles. Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

    Product Code: H94000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
    • 2m., 2w., 11 either gender.

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    • 60 min.
    William Shakespeare believed strongly in the fact that there will always be consequences when you make the wrong move. Hamlet listens to a ghost, who makes all of the decisions, and everyone ends up dead. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Machiavelli

    Machiavelli

    By Richard Vetere.

    Product Code: MF3000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce | Melodrama | Satire
    • High School | College | Professional
    • 4m., 2w.

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    • 120 min.
    Set in Florence, Italy, in 1524, this comedy is about the famous political thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  6. Animal Farm Cover AB6000

    Animal Farm

    Adapted by Ian Wooldridge from the book by George Orwell.

    Product Code: AB6000

    • Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 6 to 12 either gender. Expandable.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    The animals on a farm drive out their master and take over and run the farm for themselves. The experiment is successful, except that someone has to take the deposed farmer's place. Leadership devolves upon the pigs, which are cleverer than the rest of the animals. Unfortunately, their character is not equal to their intelligence. This dramatization remains faithful to the book's plot and intent and retains both its affection for the animals and the incisiveness of its message. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  7. Archipelago

    Archipelago

    By LeeAnne Hill Adams.

    Product Code: AB1000

    • Drama | Satire
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w. (No limit to the number of actors who make up the ensemble.)

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    • 90 min.
    Based almost entirely on experiences recounted by Gulag survivors, this play honors the memories of those who suffered and died in Stalin's concentration camps. It examines the use of comedy, specifically satire, as a means of emotional release and empowerment, and the role of the arts as a coping strategy for Gulag victims. Learn More
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  8. You Have to Serve Somebody

    You Have to Serve Somebody

    By Werner Trieschmann.

    Product Code: Y21000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 5w.

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    • 90 min.
    In this fast-paced comedy, three waiters are cogs in the machine of America's service economy. Eventually, the dreams and hopes of the servers and the served collide, and the mess is hilarious and heartwarming. Learn More
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  9. Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along

    Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along

    By Elizabeth Wong.

    Product Code: K25000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 3w. (Expandable chorus, multicultural cast.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Skewering the news media and modern race relations in America, this play shows a novice television reporter who finds herself sitting pretty in the anchor seat, but she is haunted by a bogeyman chorus who questions the way she got her promotion. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  10. Portrait of a Nude

    Portrait of a Nude

    By Laura Shamas.

    Product Code: P22000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 2w. (minimum. May be expanded.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    This play traces the history of response to Francisco Goya's masterpiece "Naked Maja" from the time of its inception in 1789 in Spain to the recent sexual harassment case surrounding it in 1991 at an American university. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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