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I Love to Eat

Product Code: IF6000

Comedy | Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 1m.
Approx. Run Time: 85 min.

Larger than life (literally and metaphorically), American culinary icon James Beard was a complex, entertaining, beloved and frustrating friend and mentor to many. Openly gay even though his primary audience was middle-America housewives, Beard always kept his phone number listed and famously took calls from anyone who needed a little cooking advice. I Love to Eat invites you to meet “the face and belly of American gastronomy” in this solo play that imagines a late night in Beard’s home. Learn More

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Pinkerton!!!

Adapted by Linda Daugherty. Based upon A Rose for Pinkerton, Pinkerton, Behave! and Pinkerton & Friends by Steven Kellogg.

Product Code: PM7000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 3m., 5w., 14 to 30 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

After tearing up a newspaper when told to “fetch” and affectionately licking the invader when told to “get the burglar,” Pinkerton receives an “F” in obedience training. Later, as Emily prepares to make up for another one of Pinkerton’s mistakes, everyone notices the precious Pepperwill diamond is missing! And “there’s the burglar.” Pinkerton springs into action at Emily’s command to “fetch,” throwing the burglar to the ground and sitting on top of him. The day is saved as all celebrate Pinkerton!

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Yoo-Hoo and Hank Williams

By Gregory S. Moss.

Product Code: Y35000

Drama
College and Adult
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

In a reimagined version of the American South in the ’50s, the Yoo-Hoo girl is an eccentric romantic. Her neighbors, including the shy paperboy, are dreamy and eccentric too. This strange, simple life becomes more complicated when the Yoo-Hoo girl meets a seductive salesman she thinks is the man of her dreams. But he changes, revealing a darker side. When the paperboy confesses his love to the Yoo-Hoo girl, the two prepare to escape, only to be confronted by the salesman, with dark and bitter consequences. Learn More

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Dead and Buried

By James McLindon.

Product Code: DG9000

Comedy | Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 1m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Perdue gets a job at the local graveyard, claiming to live with her aunt while searching for her missing mother. But her story begins to fall apart. She is actually living in the homeless shelter; her mother died shortly before she arrived and is buried in the cemetery. Perdue confides that she doesn’t remember her mother’s face and hopes that a photo will prove that she is the woman in Perdue’s oldest memory. But there are no photos, and Perdue must decide how far she’ll go to learn the truth about her mother. Learn More

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Reunion

By Gregory S. Moss.

Product Code: RD6000

Comedy | Drama
College and Adult
Cast Size: 3m.
Approx. Run Time: 110 min.

Twenty-five years ago, Mitch, Peter and Max were best friends. After a harrowing graduation night, they grew up and grew apart. But tonight is their 25th high-school reunion, and the gang is back together to celebrate and recreate the wildness of their teenage years with a night of exhilarating intoxication and risky behavior. A darkly comic drama, Reunion explores the risks and pleasures of revisiting the past, examines the precariousness of male identity and reveals the fraught and dangerous aspects of male bonding. Learn More

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The May Queen

By Molly Smith Metzler.

Product Code: MR1000

Comedy
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

For Jen Nash, being crowned the May Queen of Kingston High School was traumatizing, and she left her hometown shortly thereafter. When she returns under mysterious circumstances 15 years later, Jen takes a temp job at a discount insurance company, and gossip spreads. In this fun, dark and surprising office comedy, Jen fights to be released from the prison of her small town’s expectations, abdicate the throne and disclose once and for all who she really is. Learn More

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Lasso of Truth

By Carson Kreitzer.

Product Code: LM4000

Comedy | Drama
College and Adult
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Who is Wonder Woman and where did she come from? Lasso of Truth explores the knotty origin story of our preeminent female superhero, created by William Marston, inventor of the first lie-detector machine. This smart, seductive, wild ride features the two women Marston lived with in a polyamorous relationship—both of whom inspired the famous character—plus a girl in search of answers about her childhood heroine and a guy trying to hold on to his prized first issue.

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Molly's Hammer

By Tammy Ryan. Based on the book Hammer of Justice by Liane Ellison Norman.

Product Code: MQ7000

Drama
High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 2m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

In 1980, Molly Rush, a Pittsburgh housewife and mother of six, walked into a G.E. plant and took a hammer to the nose cone of a nuclear warhead in protest of the buildup of our nuclear arsenal. She and her fellow activists went to trial to sound the alarm, and the world was pulled back from the brink of nuclear annihilation for the time being. Told with humor and love, Molly’s Hammer shines a light on how the choice of ordinary people to take action is what is needed to save our world.

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The Island of Dr. Libris

By Chris Grabenstein and Ronny Venable. Based on the book by Chris Grabenstein.

Product Code: IF7000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 10 to 21 or more either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Billy’s spending the summer in a cabin that belongs to the mysterious Dr. Libris. But something strange is going on. Besides the security cameras everywhere, there’s Dr. Libris’ private bookcase. Whenever Billy opens the classic books inside, he can hear sounds coming from the island in the middle of the lake. It’s almost as if the stories he’s reading are coming to life! But that’s impossible … isn’t it? It’s up to Billy and his magical imagination to come up with a happy ending for everybody, including himself! Learn More

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

Adapted by Jon Jory. From the novel by James M. Cain.

Product Code: PM6000

Drama
High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 6 to 14m., 2 to 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Frank and Cora, Nick’s young wife, quickly start a romance, and Cora convinces Frank the only way they can be together is to kill Nick and collect the insurance money. Cora and Frank stage an automobile accident, in which Nick is killed, but the suspicious district attorney pits the two of them against each other. Some legal maneuvering keeps them together and out of jail, but their dreams are shattered when a second automobile accident destroys any hope they have for a decent life. Learn More

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