Adapted by Max Bush. From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Product Code: E87000
Comedy | Drama
Middle School | High School | College | Community
2 to 3m., 1 to 2w., 1 either gender.
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55 min.
This adaptation incorporates aspects of Hans Christian Andersen's life including his passion for acting and his mother's determination to help her son achieve his aspirations. The weavers in this play are actors, a mother and son; their talents come into play as they pretend to weave the "magic" cloth. As they improvise their plot, the hilarious results and the extent of the emperor's self-absorbed vanity are revealed. Learn More
Haunting and hilarious, this play takes a strange and wondrous trip through a dozen "post-modern Elizabethan" plays, poems and songs. And just like Will's own plays, this dynamic production interweaves comedy, romance, song and tragedy as it presents contemporary characters interacting with Macbeth and Duncan, Juliet and Titus Andronicus, Othello and Desdemona, and 20 other classic characters. Learn More
He was born in 1564, but historians lose track of Will Shakespeare until around 1590. This play gleefully jumps in to fill in the gaps of his so-called "lost years." Will is a 21-year-old dreamer, the father of three and quite jobless. His wife is distracted by the amorous attentions of their neighbor. Poverty, lust and gender confusion rock everyone's boat, but, in the end, fortune smiles on the aspiring young poet. Learn More
Hudson once loved to paint. Now, he paints motel art and argues with his wife, Laura—who died two years ago! He has become a recluse, but begins to emerge from his darkness when he meets Katie. Energetic, vivacious and excited about art, Katie resembles the artist Hudson was before Laura's accident. As his bond with Katie grows, Laura becomes jealous, and Hudson is afraid she might disappear forever. In the end, Hudson must choose between reality and the world he has created in his mind.
This is the story of what happened in the hotel room next to the hotel room where Ann was whisked out of the bed and into the Manhattan night by King Kong. There's always a backstory. There are also mistaken identity, pies in the face, deceit, underhandedness and even a couple of romances. And every moment is meticulously coordinated with the events depicted in the 1933 movie. Learn More
Set against the backdrop of World War II, the children of two British families navigate their way through the intricate terrain of adolescence. The play centers on 15-year-old Serena Moffitt and her younger brother, Joseph, who are sent from their working class suburb where they end up billeted with an upper-class family struggling to maintain their fortune with two sons who are close in age to the Moffitts. Learn More
Darla is fraught with deep-seated insecurities. Her mother is dead, her boyfriend is delusional and her job stocking auto parts is going nowhere fast. She is on a quest to find her true destiny, a journey that takes her into the world of stock car racing and includes an unexpected friendship with a gay college professor, a head-on collision with a car battery and a heavenly visit with the late Dale Earnhardt. Learn More
By Michael Johnson. Inspired by and borrowed from Mark Twain and William Shakespeare.
Product Code: HF5000
Comedy | Drama
High School | College | Community | Professional
8m., 6w., 2 either gender.
120 min.
Filled with the colloquialisms of Mark Twain and the jewels of Shakespeare, this play follows Huck Finn's odyssey into first love, from his meeting with Petunia (his "Juliet") at the school picnic, to the balcony scene in a thunderstorm on the roof of a chicken coop, to the climactic struggle between the big Ol' Muddy that beckons to his interminable wanderlust and the beautiful young woman on the bank who has given him her heart. Learn More
Adapted by Max Bush from a story by the Brothers Grimm.
Product Code: DF4000
Comedy | Drama
Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
6 to 12m., 8 to 16w., 3 to 6 either gender.
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65 min.
Here is a magical tale of dance and romance. A mystery threatens the security of the kingdom: where do the princesses escape to every night, and why are their dancing shoes worn out each morning? The king desperately tries to solve the mystery by proclaiming that any man who can solve it will marry the daughter of his choice and become the future king. Learn More