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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

Product Code: MB8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action.

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Things Can Always Be Worse!

Product Code: TB5000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 30 roles for a minimum of 8 actors. may be further expanded.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Rich with Jewish tradition, this is the story of an argumentative family living in a tiny hut who, following a Rabbi's advice, bring their animals into the hut.

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Smoke

By Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: SD6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m.

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A disquisition on cigars, memory and the Sabbath.

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'Til Death Do Us Plots

By Julianne Bernstein.

Product Code: TB4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

Newly divorced and "dead" Art and Lucille are stuck for eternity and some everlasting "kvetching" in a double coffin.

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In Spite of Everything

By Hindi Brooks.

Product Code: I64000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A mother and daughter renew each other's faith while trapped in a Tel Aviv apartment during an Iraq scud attack.

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An Interview With a Scapegoat

By Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: I63000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2 either gender

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

In this clever Midrash biblical interpretation, a reporter is taken to task when she tries to get her story on the hottest goat in the wilderness!

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The Foot Peddler

By Vivian Green

Product Code: F65000

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

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A bumbling peddler tells of selling his wares in 19th-century Pennsylvania.

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The Ger (The Convert)

By Leslie B. Gold and Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: G72000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A recent convert tries to rally support from family and friends.

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The Tiger Turned Pink

Product Code: TB8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 6 or more actors. Roles may be played by adult of child actors of either sex.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Toby, a young tiger who turns pink whenever he blushes, is captured and displayed in a circus until audience interaction helps Toby put his escape plan into action.

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Aesop's Clinic

Product Code: AG3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 7 either gender.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

This title suggests how Aesop happened to write his famous fables. Lively, colorful characters (two foxes, a crow, a tortoise, a hare and two moles) come to Aesop to tell about their adventures: the tortoise and the hare had a race, the fox tried to reach some grapes high on a vine but failed, and so on. The adventures become the fables that we all love so well.

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