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  1. One Stoplight Town OB5000

    One Stoplight Town

    By Tracy Wells.

    Product Code: OB5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 2w., 5 to 20 either gender

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    One Stoplight Town is a story about people from a small town. A young boy and girl fall in love, a cantankerous grocery store owner copes with change, a son returns home while a daughter thinks about leaving, and a handyman takes it all in while he fixes what is broken. These stories and more are filled with fun characters, lots of humor, plenty of heart and the theme that change comes for us all, whether we are ready or not. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  2. A Tale of Two Spectators

    A Tale of Two Spectators

    By Peter Manos.

    Product Code: TW8000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 20 min.
    In a park, a man and a woman secretly watch their respective spouses carry on an affair. As time goes on we realize they have been meeting like this to watch their spouses for quite some time and have even developed something of a bond with each other, despite their predicament. And perhaps they have discovered a little more about themselves and their lives, as well. This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  3. Just Desserts

    Just Desserts

    By Norma Cole and Naneki Elliott.

    Product Code: J35000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Professional
    • 2w. (3, may be expaned to 5 w.)
    • 45 min.
    Set in a rural Kentucky home near the end of the 19th century, this poignant drama recalls the era after the Civil War when women in Kentucky took action against the injustice of English common law regarding property rights, wages, and possessions. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  4. Ring of Lead

    Ring of Lead

    Adapted by Ken Pickering. From Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould's short story The Leaden Ring.

    Product Code: RC2000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 2m., 3w.

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    • 25 min.
    Based on a short story by Sabine Baring-Gould. A young woman endures the memory of a suitor who committed suicide and is ultimately trapped by his revenge. Learn More
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  5. Suspect to Change

    Suspect to Change

    By Will Humble.

    Product Code: S1D000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 2m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 35 min.
    It's a case of mistaken identity when a woman is taken to the hospital after a car accident. Confusion reigns as everyone attempts to sort out what crimes may have been committed and by whom. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  6. The Haunted Carousel

    The Haunted Carousel

    By Ruth Angell Purkey.

    Product Code: HD2000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 6m., 8w.
    • 30 min.
    Perhaps there are dimensions in time, mysterious and unexplored, where the past moves into the present and back again, revolving like the spinning of a carousel. This is the theme of this drama, which centers on the polar bear of a carousel where a woman left her little boy in the 1890s. He disappeared and she has spent her entire life looking for him. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  7. Sharing

    Sharing

    By O.B. Rozell.

    Product Code: SY2000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | TYA
    • 4m., 7w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 25 min.
    A family copes with the loss of their wife and mother at holiday time. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  8. The Dinosaur Play D17000

    The Dinosaur Play

    By Steve and Kathy Hotchner.

    Product Code: D17000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | Professional
    • 2m., 2w. (1 either gender.)

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    Entering the last age of the dinosaurs, the children gather around an egg and help it hatch. Making friends with a rough triceratops, they protect the newly formed family, and defeat the hungry T-Rex. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  10. The Magic Well

    The Magic Well

    By Herman Ammann.

    Product Code: ML3000

    • Comedy
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | TYA
    • 4 to 8m., 6 to 10w.
    • 35 min.
    Here is another delicious mixture of fairyland fantasy and modern social realism. King Cole is un-merry because he has three daughters of marriageable age—and no prospective sons-in-law to take them off his hands. A professional hunter comes to rid the kingdom of a dragon, but the local environmentalist thinks dragons should be protected as an endangered species. There's a well with magic powers and a frog. An Old Hag is troubled with inflation—the price of lizard tongues has gone out of sight! There is humor in the villagers' reactions to all this. Learn More
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