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  1. Polly Wants a Curtain Call

    Polly Wants a Curtain Call

    By Victoria Sayeg.

    Product Code: PM5000

    • Comedy
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School
    • 2m., 6w., 14 to 23 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    One day, in the midst of a ship-looting-gone-wrong, Pauline, the Shakespeare-reciting, gluten-intolerant parrot flies away to pursue her acting career in Pollywood. When the pirates discover that she has run away, they experience an awakening and determine that it is not too late to change their scoundrel ways, which leads them directly to Aargaholics Anonymous! Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  2. All Out

    All Out

    By John Zodrow.

    Product Code: AA8000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce | Satire | Tragedy
    • College | Community
    • 6m., 4w., 6 to 7 extras.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 30 min.
    To what extremes will the game show contestants go to win a prize of $100,000? This play is about lack of ethics and what people will do for money. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  3. Lost In Tumblerock or, They Took the Wrong Road

    Lost In Tumblerock or, They Took the Wrong Road

    By Katie Reed.

    Product Code: LJ9000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 7m., 8w., extras.
    • 45 min.
    This comic melodrama is complete with rowdy ranch hands and beautiful French cancan dancers and will have the audience cheering the heroes and booing the villains. Learn More
    $7.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  4. Suspect to Change

    Suspect to Change

    By Will Humble.

    Product Code: S1D000

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

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    • 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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  5. Recalculating

    Recalculating

    Product Code: RF2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1 to 2m., 3 to 5w.

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    • 35 min.
    Financially strained art dealers Libby and Beth take an automobile ride across a big city to a rendezvous during which they appear engaged in the illegal sale of stolen fossils. Their trip is comically punctuated by the unctuous female voice of the GPS unit on the dashboard, which begins to make cryptic remarks that seem less concerned with geography and more with the course of Libby and Beth's lives, ultimately leading them to make a significant decision. Learn More
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