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  1. Cry it Out

    Cry it Out

    By Molly Smith Metzler.

    Product Code: CR7000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 3w.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Cooped up on maternity leave and starved for conversation, Jessie invites her funny and forthright neighbor Lina, also a new mom, for coffee on the patio between their duplexes. Despite their vastly different finances, they become fast friends during naptimes—while someone spies on them from the mansion on the cliff overlooking Jessie’s yard. This comedy with dark edges takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the dilemma of returning to work, and how class impacts parenthood and friendship. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  2. Midnight and Moll Flanders MS800

    Midnight and Moll Flanders

    By Marie Kohler. Adapted from the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

    Product Code: MS8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 6w., with doubling. Expandable ensemble.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Moll Flanders’ drive for love and survival led her on many adventures—flings, marriages and a career as an infamous thief. The play begins on the eve of Moll’s hanging at Newgate Prison as she tells her story to the minister, who is determined to offer her a last chance at salvation. Midnight and Moll Flanders follows a transformation journey for both Moll and the minister, exploring the influence of gender, class, free will and luck in an era as wildly entrepreneurial as our own. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Revolution RF5000

    Revolution

    By Brett Neveu.

    Product Code: RF5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Who celebrates their 26th birthday in the alley? Puff, that’s who. With the help of her best friend, Jame, and the unlikely company of Georgia, Puff rings in her new year with laughter, connection, a dose of danger and Miller High Life. Revolution interrogates and celebrates the very nature of creating community and building friendships in our ever-evolving, ever-disconnecting world. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Never After Happily N94000

    Never After Happily

    By Cindy Marcus.

    Product Code: N94000

    • Comedy | Farce | Satire
    • High School | College | Community
    • 4 to 7m., 7 to 10w., 2 any gender.
    • 85 min.
    Welcome to an enchanted kingdom where all your favorite fairy tale characters have come to retell—NOPE! Scratch that, we're not doin’ that! Ella’s tired of the false promises that never come true in the real world, so she’s writing what happens AFTER. Now, the entire kingdom is rocked as these aging ingénues and neurotic princes try to deal with life after that perfect moment. Part farce, part vaudeville, part SNL, a little Rocky Horror and a wild ride that no one ever imagined after “happily ever after.” Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Tar Beach TX9000

    Tar Beach

    By Tammy Ryan.

    Product Code: TX9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    It is July 1977—the Son of Sam is on the loose, and New York City is in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Sixteen-year-old Mary Claire and her best friend start that day sunning themselves on the rooftop. Her younger sister, Reenie, is searching for her lost class project, while their parents are consumed by the battles of their troubled marriage. The boy-crazy teenagers hatch a plan to stay out all night, but an overstressed electrical grid leads to a city-wide blackout and a sudden loss of innocence. Learn More
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  6. Miss Holmes Returns MS7000

    Miss Holmes Returns

    By Christopher M. Walsh. Based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: MS7000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 5m., 6 to 7w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    A nurse and activist finds herself on the run, wanted for murder. Pursued by authorities who choose to ignore a clear case of self-defense due to her Indian heritage and influence from sinister figures from the shadowy criminal underworld, she turns to Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson for help. Miss Holmes Returns explores the added challenges and risks faced by these iconic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters if they were women, while also examining the intersections of sexism, classism and racism. Learn More
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  7. A Trip to the Moon TX4000

    A Trip to the Moon

    By Tracy Wells.

    Product Code: TX4000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 3 to 15m., 3 to 19w., 6 to 21 any gender, flexible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Set in the transformative summer of 1969, A Trip to the Moon tells the story of people reaching for their dreams … dreams of love, dreams of equality, dreams of the stars. Told around the time of the moon landing, this vignette-style play is comprised of 16 scenes, each named after an iconic song from 1969. These scenes and more use humor and heart to teach us about who we once were and reflect on who we could be and remind us that to achieve the impossible, we must reach for the stars. Learn More
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  8. Girls in the Boat GE7000

    Girls in the Boat

    By Alice Austen.

    Product Code: GE7000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 9w.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Girls in the Boat was inspired by the true stories of the U.S. women’s Olympic rowing team. A group of smart, fiery young women fight discrimination and prejudice to compete in the male-dominated sport of rowing. Against the rhythm of their oars, these women forge bonds and overcome disagreements in their search for greatness and remind us of what we can all do if we have a common purpose. As our heroines break barriers of race and gender, their team goes on to become the most winning sports team in American history. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020) AN6000

    Shattering

    By Pat Montley.

    Product Code: S4J000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.
    • 105 min.
    Jonah has just been released from juvenile commitment into the foster care of Jacqueline Dawson, whose estranged son he helped to murder. Jonah is ordered to torture and kill Dawson—or be killed himself. The instructions come from the gang leader through Jonah’s girlfriend LaBelle, who is pregnant. Jonah and LaBelle plot the murder, even as his relationship with the strict but caring Dawson develops and his imagined visits with her dead son jar his conscience. Learn More
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  10. American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020) AN6000

    The Cayuga Canal Girls

    By Laura King.

    Product Code: CS2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5w.
    • 95 min.
    Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, N.Y., to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities. Learn More
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