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  1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd MS6000

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Adapted by Philip Grecian. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie.

    Product Code: MS6000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7 to 8m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In the small village of King’s Abbot, Mrs. Ferrars admits to her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, that she had murdered her husband a year earlier and was being blackmailed to keep the murder a secret. Later, Ackroyd himself is murdered as he sits in his study, and detective Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement to investigate. Every servant and acquaintance in the household at the time of Ackroyd’s murder has something to hide—but who did it? And why? Learn More
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  2. D.O.A.

    D.O.A.

    By Elizabeth Lovelady. Based on the screenplay by Russel Rouse and Clarence Greene.

    Product Code: DG2000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 5 to 12m., 4 to 9w.

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    • 60 min.
    In this adaptation of the 1950s classic noir film, Frank Bigelow walks into a police station to report a murder: his own. After a wild night of drinking at jazz clubs with sexy women, he wakes feeling ill and learns he has been poisoned. With only hours left to live, Bigelow frantically searches for his killer and the reason he was targeted. Will the killer be brought to justice? Learn More
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  3. The Elopement of Megan O'Flaherty With the Ghost From Tinkers' Hollow

    The Elopement of Megan O'Flaherty With the Ghost From Tinkers' Hollow

    By Michael Johnson.

    Product Code: E79000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 3w., 1 either gender, extras.
    • 100 min.
    In 1900, Megan O'Flaherty, a young, plain barmaid in an Irish pub, is to be married in four days to the village braggart. When she hears a voice whisper to her from the shadows, it is like no other she has ever heard. She falls passionately in love for the first time, not with her husband-to-be, but with a ghost! Her father, her fiancé and the entire village have much to say about this situation as they fill the stage with Irish wisdom and hilarity! Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. King Stag

    King Stag

    Adapted by Stanley Vincent Longman. From the play by Carlo Gozzi.

    Product Code: K43000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 9m., 3w., 4 either gender.

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    • 120 min.
    In this adaptation, the kingdom of Sependippo appears before our eyes with the help of the magnificent wizard, Durandarte. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  5. Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    By Max Bush. Adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

    Product Code: TT4000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 10m., 2w., extras possible.

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    • 100 min.
    Sixteen-year-old Jim, Captain Billy Bones, Doctor Livesay and Squire Trelawney outfit a ship—the Hispaniola— and travel the seas in hunt of hidden treasure. Aboard the ship, Jim meets Long John Silver and quickly learns who he really is and what his plans are. Aided by Ben Gunn, the wild and half-insane maroon, Jim takes on the responsibility to save the ship and his shipmates and to secure the treasure. Learn More
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  6. Sorority House of the Dead

    Sorority House of the Dead

    By Mitch Brian.

    Product Code: ST2000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 3m. (2 with doubling), 7w., plus extra women as desired.
    • 60 min.
    It's 1987, and the totally tubular sorority sisters of Delta Pi Sigma are looking for new blood. When "brainiac" Tonya, "Madonnawannabe" Deb and "working girl" Janet enter the rush party of their "own free will," they soon discover that the sisters are "like, totally vampires" under the command of the eternally youthful house mother, Mrs. B. And when Mrs. B lays eyes on Janet, she becomes convinced that Janet is the reincarnation of her long-lost companion. As Deb goes missing and Janet falls under Mrs. B's spell, it's up to Tonya and southern belle Sissy to destroy the nest of vampires and rescue Janet. Learn More
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  7. Maul of the Dead

    Maul of the Dead

    By Mitch Brian.

    Product Code: MH3000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 4w., 10 to 25 or more zombies.
    • 60 min.
    It's 1978 and zombies in polyester walk the earth. A pair of SWAT officers take refuge with a perfume counter girl in a zombie-infested shopping mall. Learn More
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  8. 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
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  9. Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    Adapted by Anne Ludlum and David Quicksall. Based on Don Quixote, Parts I and II, by Miguel de Cervantes.

    Product Code: D94000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 3w. (May be expanded to approximately 50 actors, with many opportunities for gender flexibility.)

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    • 120 min.
    Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, to deal with the inexplicable as they travel through the plains of La Mancha. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Nathan the Wise

    Nathan the Wise

    By Paul D'Andrea after G.E. Lessing. Translation by Gisela D'Andrea and Paul D'Andrea.

    Product Code: N54000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 6m., 3w. (Doubling and expansion possible.)
    • 100 min.
    This Western classic on religious tolerance is set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. Two young people, Jew and Christian, are drawn to each other in love and come up with an imaginative resolution to the issue of which is the one true faith. Learn More
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