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  1. Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

    By Craig Sodaro.

    Product Code: C59000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 3m., 4w.

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    • 35 min.
    At the Bar None Cafe, Cal and Sharon Bowman have tried desperately to hang on to a run-down business begun by Cal's grandmother, who still lives above the kitchen. For Sharon, the cafe has become a dead end, a symbol of her useless existence in a lonely hamlet. When an oil company suddenly offers to buy the building, she eagerly convinces Cal to sell. But for Grams the cafe is her only link to the past. When Cal finally breaks the news of the sale to her, Grams flatly refuses to leave. When the new owner and his lawyer come to close the deal, Grams shows that she's lost none of her fight. Learn More
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  2. The Wall Hanging

    The Wall Hanging

    By Barbara Milne.

    Product Code: W52000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 1m., 2w.
    • 30 min.
    A young businesswoman causes an old Russian man and his wife to disclose the secrets they have hidden since leaving their country years ago when she is sent to their home to explain that their old farmhouse has been sold. Learn More
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  3. 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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  4. Such a Nice Little Kitty

    Such a Nice Little Kitty

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: S66000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 2m., 1w. (1 offstage cat.)

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    • 30 min.
    Walter Hebert waits nervously in the dark for his adversary. He stalks his prey and, at the same time, he knows he's being stalked himself. This hilarious cat-and-mouse game includes a 57-pound complaining (offstage) cat named Cleopatra. And the mouse, of course, is paranoid Walter. Playing the devil's advocate is Walter's wife, Edna, who tries to keep him from getting rid of "puss puss." As it works out in a funny/horrifying moment of "black comedy," Walter gets rid of Edna! Cleopatra, however, remains and now she's determined to wipe out Walter. Learn More
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  5. First On The Rope

    First On The Rope

    By Tim Kelly.

    Product Code: FD3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College
    • 5w.

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    • 25 min.
    A group of women climbers attempt to be the first to scale a mountain when they learn someone has gone before them. Learn More
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  6. Just Like Old Times

    Just Like Old Times

    By Robert G. Barone.

    Product Code: J62000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 6w.
    • 25 min.
    Five women, former members of their high-school drama club, meet at a funeral home after the death of the sixth member and reflect on their lives. Learn More
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  7. Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    By John Mattera and Stephen Barrows.

    Product Code: F31000

    • Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 5m., 1w. (1 creature.)
    • 35 min.
    This version of the classic thriller catches the essence of Mary Shelley's novel and builds to a climax with an unexpected twist. Learn More
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  8. Help

    Help

    Adapted by David Grote. Based on the satire Love of One's Neighbor by Leonid Andreyev.

    Product Code: HD5000

    • Satire
    • High School | College
    • 14+ actors, flexible.
    • 25 min.
    A crowd gathers to watch a man trapped on top of a tower and speculates on the outcome. The crowd seems more concerned about themselves than the man on the tower. Learn More
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  9. Searching

    Searching

    By O.B. Rozell.

    Product Code: SX4000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 2m., 5w.

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    • 30 min.
    A teenage girl searches for her birth mother after learning that her adoptive mother has a terminal illness. Learn More
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  10. Sharing

    Sharing

    By O.B. Rozell.

    Product Code: SY2000

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

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    • 25 min.
    A family copes with the loss of their wife and mother at holiday time. Learn More
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