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  1. The Empty Pot

    The Empty Pot

    By Debbie L. Metzler. Adapted from a Chinese folktale.

    Product Code: E83000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 4w., 10 to 15 or more either gender.
    • 65 min.
    Adaptation from a Chinese folktale about a young boy who, like the emperor, likes to grow beautiful flowers. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  2. Collateral Bodies

    Collateral Bodies

    By Erin Rachel Kaplan.

    Product Code: CN7000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7w.
    • 75 min.
    An exploration of human rights as women relate experiences of sexual trafficking, rape, female circumcision and domestic violence through fictional stories based in truth. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Sun Yat Sen: In the Mouth of the Dragon

    Sun Yat Sen: In the Mouth of the Dragon

    By Edward F. EmanuEl.

    Product Code: SF3000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 25 roles plus ensemble as needed; 12 actors with doubling.
    • 115 min.
    Set in London, 1896, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a leader of the Young China revolutionary movement, is being tortured and drugged by his captors to get him to confess to crimes against the Dowager Empress of China's government Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  4. The Honorable Urashima Taro

    The Honorable Urashima Taro

    By Coleman A. Jennings.

    Product Code: H27000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • a minimum of 11.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 55 min.
    A young fisherman rescues a venerable turtle from its tormentors. As a reward, he is taken to an undersea wonderland where he wins the favor of the princess and saves her kingdom from destruction by the wicked scorpion. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

    Book by William Electric Black and Amie Brockway-Henson. Music by Elliot Sokolov. From the story by Hans Christian Andersen.

    Product Code: N04000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • An ensemble of 12 m. and w. (not gender specific.)
    • 60 min.
    When Grandpa begins to tell his grandchildren about the emperor's nightingale, his back yard is transformed into the emperor of China's palace, garden and forest, and the three of them become characters in this humorous and moving story. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  6. Sun Yat Sen: In the Mouth of the Dragon

    Sun Yat Sen: In the Mouth of the Dragon

    By Edward F. EmanuEl. Chinese Translation by Mickey Lin EmanuEl and James Shen.

    Product Code: SL4000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 25 roles plus ensemble as needed; 12 actors with doubling.
    • 90 min.
    In this Chinese manuscript, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a leader of the Young China revolutionary movement, is being tortured and drugged by his captors to get him to confess to crimes against the Dowager Empress of China's government Learn More
    $39.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  7. Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along

    Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along

    By Elizabeth Wong.

    Product Code: K25000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 3w. (Expandable chorus, multicultural cast.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Skewering the news media and modern race relations in America, this play shows a novice television reporter who finds herself sitting pretty in the anchor seat, but she is haunted by a bogeyman chorus who questions the way she got her promotion. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  8. Letters to a Student Revolutionary

    Letters to a Student Revolutionary

    By Elizabeth Wong.

    Product Code: L74000

    • Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w. (Expandable chorus, multicultural cast.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    A jaded American rebel reluctantly on a family vacation in China meets a young idealistic Chinese girl with whom she embarks on a 10-year correspondence, which is cut tragically short by the Tiananmen Square massacre. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. The Crane Wife

    The Crane Wife

    Book by Barbara Carlisle. Music (optional) by David Newsome. Adapted from Japanese folklore and based on a production idea by Randy Ward.

    Product Code: CJ3000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • Cast:12 to 20 with varied mixture of men and women.

      LLivestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    The peasant Kokuro removes an arrow from a stricken crane, who then comes in secret gratitude to live with him as a wife. When her weaving of magnificent cloth saves them from starvation, the poor peasant yields to greed and suspicion and loses his most precious gift. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. The Oldest Story Ever Told

    The Oldest Story Ever Told

    By David F. Eliet. Music by Kenneth Kacmar.

    Product Code: O79000

    • Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School
    • 2m., 2w., with doubling or up to 15 (5m., 10w.) with roles distributed.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    All of the beloved and familiar elements of the Cinderella are here, but with highly theatrical variations representing the different cultures of Africa, India and China. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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