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Sense and Sensibility

Adapted by Ashley J. Barnard. From the novel by Jane Austen.

Product Code: SN6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brother's scheming and manipulative wife. Their prospects for marriage nearly ruined, the sisters are nevertheless courted by three dynamic men, each with a dark secret.

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The Door

Product Code: D99000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m., 1w., 1 offstage voice.

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Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

A grandmother sits in her darkened apartment and refuses to answer the insistent knocking at her front door. Her teenage grandson, who had been beaten and brutally murdered because someone thought he was gay, pushes every annoying button to encourage his grandmother, who has shut herself off from everything, to answer the door.

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Don't Fear the Reaper

Product Code: D98000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 4 to 7m., 3w., 3 either gender (2 nonspeaking roles).

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

The Grim Reaper meets with God and learns that—due to certain people ending up in the wrong afterlife—it is time to turn over his scythe to the new Reaper, Jeremy (formerly the grim reaper of insects). Insisting that people should be able to die with a little compassion and sympathy, the Reaper steals the scythe and goes rogue. Cornered by God, Satan, Jeremy and his wife, the Reaper is forced to decide whether he should go quietly or take the world down with him.

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Persuasion

Adapted by Ashley J. Barnard. From the novel by Jane Austen.

Product Code: PD1000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 6m., 8w. (5m., 7w. with doubling).

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In 1806, Anne Elliot falls in love with Captain Wentworth, despite his lack of fortune and prospects. Against her heart, she is persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, brokenhearted and ill-used by her family, Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, only to learn that he is now rich—and looking for a wife. The prior years of bitterness will truly test their love for each other, as well as Anne's will to resist the persuasion of others.

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Tracks

Product Code: TH4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 4m., 6w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

A group of strangers meet in a dirty subway station and soon learn an unfortunate truth: they are all dead. They reason the train leaving from one platform must be bound for heaven and the other must be bound for hell. But which platform are they on? As the train approaches, they must decide whether to stay and ponder their actions further, or to have faith and climb aboard to their final destination.

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Shady Meadows

Product Code: SN5000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 2 to 3m., 2 to 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Neil and Melanie have just bought their first home in a brand-new subdivision built over a wetland. At first they think they've discovered a paradise; but when they first hear the ominous croaking, they begin to feel the first flickers of doubt. As the wetland tries to find its way back, the newest residents of Shady Meadows prepare for all-out war. Shady Meadows is a cautionary comedy about the human desire to control the environment—and the potential devastation of not giving nature its due.

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Mustardseed

Product Code: MF7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Four teenage girls are cast as fairies in a stage production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Each girl experiences a real-life coming-of-age moment. The play is underscored and illuminated by the themes in Shakespeare's text.

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Paper or Plastic?

Product Code: PB5000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 6m., 6w., 3 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

For her first job, teenage Sarah thinks she's easily qualified to check out customers at her local grocery store. At least it has to be better than serving up greasy fast food, right? But she isn't prepared for the assistant manager who refuses to deal with unruly customers or her crazy co-workers who put on camouflage to hunt down stray grocery carts. All Sarah wants is the answer to the simplest question in the world: Paper or plastic?

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Coffee With God

Product Code: CE4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Praise Group
Cast Size: 3m., 1w. or 2m., 2w. The role of God may be played by a man or woman.

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

A man is enjoying coffee and a bagel at his favorite New Jersey diner when God, carrying a laptop computer, enters, sits next to him and seems to know all about him.

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Breakfast With Willy

Product Code: BC3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

A one-time victim of the Nazis who has had very few choices in life meets a woman in a grocery store who can't choose a breakfast cereal and is suffering from the modern-day affliction of too much choice in life. He leaves more hopeful and she finds a deepened life purpose.

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