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Once Upon a Shoe or The Rhymes and Mimes of Mother Goose and Her Traveling Troubadours

Product Code: O29000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 7 to 30, flexible.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home—a large, comfortable shoe—and move to an old sneaker "across the tracks." The children decide to "put on a show" to save their shoe, and in the best Garlandooney tradition, they proceed to enact eight of Mother Goose's best poems. The shoe is saved, and Mother Goose and her troupe are off to Hollywood.

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It's Sad, So Sad When an Elf Goes Bad

Product Code: ID3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | Touring Group
Cast Size: 12+ actors, either gender, flexible.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

A misfit elf and retired reindeer plot revenge on Santa, but discover others can be hurt by their actions.

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The Sheep Thief

Adapted by Ford Ainsworth from The Second Shepherd's Play.

Product Code: SY4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 4m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Three shepherds must thwart the efforts of a thieving scoundrel named Mak who is trying to steal their sheep. In spite of their vigilance, Mak manages to steal a lamb. The scene in which Mak and his wife, Gil, try to pass the lamb off as their newborn baby is some of the best comedy ever written.

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The Men's Cottage

Product Code: MJ6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 2m., 1w., 1 boy, 1 girl, extras optional.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play, especially written for a junior-high-school audience, deals with the coming-of-age rituals of a boy in a primitive culture.

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Flashback!

By Alice Wilson. Additional materials supplied by Louis Moloney, Johnny Saldaña and Rachel Winfree.

Product Code: FB4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 3m., 3w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

An exuberant revue using mime, dance and song to celebrate the world of the contemporary child.

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A Gazebo for My Lady

Based on the story by O. Henry. Dramatized by Bill Majeski.

Product Code: G29000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 3m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A young architect redesigns plans for a gazebo for a wealthy client and the boss fires him. To ease the blow, he goes out for a last fling and meets a girl with a picket sign proclaiming "Fair Play for the Working Man."

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Victoria at 18

Product Code: V12000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 7w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

It's a clash of wills between Victoria and her mother, the strong-willed Duchess of Kent, who has always refused to let her daughter grow up. Vicky must sleep in a cot by her mother's bed, let her mother make every decision

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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Adapted by Susan Carle. Based on the story by Rudyard Kipling.

Product Code: R17000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 4m., 4w. (1 muskrat, 1 mongoose.)

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Can Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a young mongoose, save the world

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The Undercover Lover (The Substitute Servant)

Product Code: U38000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 5w., extras.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Modification of a Kabuki play likely from the 15th century. A henpecked husband tricks his wife into allowing him a night out, but incurs her wrath when she discovers his ruse.

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O, Little Town

Product Code: O89000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | Touring Group | Praise Group
Cast Size: 10+ actors, flexible

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

God and an angel are disappointed in people's behavior around the Christmas holiday until a young couple giving birth restore some hope for humanity.

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