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

Shattering

Product Code: S4J000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 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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Mynx & Savage

By Rebecca Gorman O'Neill.

Product Code: MR3000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Adam is a comic book writer coasting on his past successes. Ket is young and ambitious. As the duo sets to work on the 100th issue of Mynx and Savage, the fantasy bleeds into reality as the superheroes and their mild-mannered alter egos invade the artists’ space. Adam finally starts to trust Ket and shares the story he’s been hiding. In the end, as the worlds of the children, the superheroes and the artists collide, Ket helps Adam realize that he has no future until he makes amends with his past. Learn More

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Miss Holmes

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

Product Code: MQ5000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5 to 10m., 4 to 8w.

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Approx. Run Time: 135 min.

When an anonymous note sends a newlywed wife looking for help, Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson work to uncover the secrets of a corrupt police inspector whose wives have a habit of turning up dead. In a time when gender roles are rigidly defined, these unconventional women challenge societal norms. This play explores the added obstacles faced by these two iconic characters if they were women. Learn More

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Losers Bracket

By Clay Sander and Nate Sander.

Product Code: LL3000

Comedy
Recommended For: College | Community
Cast Size: 5 to 6m., 2 to 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Gus "Hitch" Bigwood has been faking his limp for the past decade to avoid paying back the insurance company for a fraudulent claim. Trying to gather enough money to disappear, Hitch and the town's sheriff hatch a scheme to fake-steal Hitch's antique automobile and collect the insurance payoff, but when Ethan and Tiny find out Hitch is faking his limp, he is forced to let them in on the plans. Learn More

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Oedipus: A Story of Gold and Shadow

Adapted by Ann H. Brockette.

Product Code: O88000

Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5m., 2w. with an ensemble of up to 40 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This adaptation is a story of a great man who pays the ultimate price for trying to outsmart the gods. As Greek mythology shows, however, no human can rise to the power of the gods who rule over us. Learn More

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And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

By James Still.

Product Code: A84000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5m., 4w. (2m., 2w. with doubling.)

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

And Then They Came for Me is a unique theatrical experience: a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss with live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War II. This play incorporates live actors, videotape, and a CD for each performance.

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Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along

By Elizabeth Wong.

Product Code: K25000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 3w. (Expandable chorus, multicultural cast.)

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Approx. Run Time: 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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T-Money & Wolf

By Kevin Willmott and Ric Averill.

Product Code: T95000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: multicultural cast of 20 to 24 actors.
Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

What do a hardened Nazi war criminal and a young gang member from New Jersey have in common? From a Newark jail cell, their respective stories unfold, and the similarities of their lives and their choices become painfully apparent. By seeing the choices made by each of these prisoners, actors and audiences are challenged to review their own choices and reflect on the finality of consequences. Learn More

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Travels With My Aunt

Adapted by Giles Havergal. Based on Graham Greene's novel.

Product Code: T89000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m. (Doubling in a great many roles.)
Approx. Run Time: 110 min.

The story revolves around Henry Pulling, a prematurely retired banker is dragged kicking and screaming into the incredibly picaresque world of his vivacious and flamboyant "old Aunt Augusta." Learn More

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Adapted by Christopher Sergel. From the novel by Harper Lee.

Product Code: T34000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 11m., 6w. (flexible, extras.)

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Approx. Run Time: 125 min.

The play opens in a sleepy Alabama town in the midst of the Great Depression, where Scout and her brother live with their widowed father, Atticus. The facade of the seemingly peaceful town begins to crack when a young black man is accused of a terrible crime. Driven by an unshakeable moral conviction, local lawyer Atticus defends the man in a trial that sends violent waves through the community. Timeless and lingering, this hard-hitting work explores prejudice, compassion and the courage to do what is right. Learn More

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