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  1. Swing State S4U000

    Swing State

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: S4U000

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

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 105 min.
    Recently widowed, Peg tends to the native prairie that rises behind her rural Wisconsin home. Her solitary days are interrupted only by visits from Ryan, a family friend with a checkered past. After a mysterious theft, she places a call to the local authorities—unwittingly setting off a series of events that will forever change their lives. As Peg and Ryan fight to regain each other's trust, they learn how to forge a sense of hope in a time when it feels like everyone’s way of life is in danger of disappearing. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  2. Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108) LN6000

    Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108)

    By Michael Higgins.

    Product Code: LN6000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 5m., 3 to 5w., 1 to 3 any gender.
    • 90 min.
    Told through a series of two-actor scenes, Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108) follows six couples struggling with relationship issues in a high-tech but perilous future. These couples face challenges including a robotic arm gone rogue, advertising firms pushing products by implanting computer chips into participants’ heads, genetically engineered hybrid animals like the buffadillo and pandaroo and AI supervisors that may or may not be sentient. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet Y37000

    Yana Wana's Legend of the Bluebonnet

    By María F. Rocha and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce. Music and lyrics by Héctor Martínez Morales.

    Product Code: Y37000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 5w., 2 to 6 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Thirteen-year-old Maria is having trouble in school, so her mom sends her to stay with her Coahuiltecan grandmother for discipline and perspective. There, Maria is told the story of Yana Wana, who followed a revered deer to find water and save her people. Yana Wana’s story gives Maria a renewed sense of self and family pride. A beautiful, original play that illustrates the power of ancestral heritage and offers a seldom-seen glimpse into the timeless spirituality of Indigenous people. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. The Storm in the Barn

    The Storm in the Barn

    Adapted by Eric Coble. From the graphic novel by Matt Phelan.

    Product Code: S4D000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 7 to 20 either gender.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    In 1937 Kansas, 11-year-old Jack faces many challenges: bullies, his father’s desperate attempts to keep his family intact, an ill older sister and a troublemaker little sister. But he’s also facing the Dust Bowl and the steady spread of the mysterious illness “Dust Dementia.” So can Jack even trust his own eyes when he makes a terrifying discovery in the abandoned barn next door? When everyone says you’re too small to be the hero of any story, where do you find the strength to save your family … and the world? Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. 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
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus

    The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus

    By Eric Coble.

    Product Code: GE5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus is a whirlwind adventure about how we affect the environment and the animals with whom we share the planet, and how we take on the mission of saving the world from ourselves. A unique twist on traditional storytelling, where a bit of moonlight brings a menagerie of found objects to life, this original play shows the power of memory and imagination and will captivate and inspire audiences of all ages. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. The Royal Society of Antarctica Cover RE1000

    The Royal Society of Antarctica

    By Mat Smart.

    Product Code: RE1000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 3w.
    • 140 min.
    A young woman seeking to understand her mother’s disappearance joins the ranks of a ragtag group of misfits and scientists who serve at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Amidst janitorial duties, never-ending daylight and subzero temperatures, this lonely and rugged bunch finds an escape from the world and a home for one another. A striking and luminous story about why we run away and what happens when we finally come face to face with what we’ve been running away from. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  8. Digging Up Dessa Cover DH2000

    Digging Up Dessa

    By Laura Schellhardt

    Product Code: DH2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | Professional | TYA
    • 1m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Dessa is a 21st-century girl with no shortage of struggles, secrets and mysteries to solve. After a museum field trip reveals that the pioneering 19th-century paleontologist Mary Anning’s legacy has been buried by history because of her gender and lack of formal education, Dessa decides that she’s going to fight to earn her friend the credit she deserves. With help from her once-rival, Dessa sets to work unearthing the secrets hidden beneath the surface of the past and present for Mary’s history and her own future. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. The Story of Opal

    The Story of Opal

    Adapted by Gale Childs Daly. From the book by Opal Whiteley.

    Product Code: S2V000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 2m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    This play is an adaptation of Opal Whiteley’s diary. She was a little girl who lived at the turn of the 20th century in a lumber camp in Oregon. Opal’s world was exceptional, and she recorded every day, lovingly and carefully, in her own special language. Everyone who enters Opal’s world will remember it. Her life is portrayed here without sentiment—it was a hard, impoverished time in a grim environment, and yet she managed to find good in the world and engaged it with an “understanding heart.” Learn More
    $10.95 /script

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  10. Burst BN5000

    Burst

    By Rachel Bublitz.

    Product Code: BN5000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Sarah Boyd built her company, Tactix, from scratch and believes that it will save the planet, ushering our world into the post-plastic era. Focused on her next round of funding, Sarah must persevere through an interview with a tough reporter, a lawsuit aimed at a person from her past and the waffling of her CTO. It’s a heavy load, and Sarah knows that she is the only one great enough to bear it. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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