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  1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd MS6000

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Adapted by Philip Grecian. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie.

    Product Code: MS6000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7 to 8m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In the small village of King’s Abbot, Mrs. Ferrars admits to her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, that she had murdered her husband a year earlier and was being blackmailed to keep the murder a secret. Later, Ackroyd himself is murdered as he sits in his study, and detective Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement to investigate. Every servant and acquaintance in the household at the time of Ackroyd’s murder has something to hide—but who did it? And why? Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. D.O.A.

    D.O.A.

    By Elizabeth Lovelady. Based on the screenplay by Russel Rouse and Clarence Greene.

    Product Code: DG2000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 5 to 12m., 4 to 9w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    In this adaptation of the 1950s classic noir film, Frank Bigelow walks into a police station to report a murder: his own. After a wild night of drinking at jazz clubs with sexy women, he wakes feeling ill and learns he has been poisoned. With only hours left to live, Bigelow frantically searches for his killer and the reason he was targeted. Will the killer be brought to justice? Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. The Elopement of Megan O'Flaherty With the Ghost From Tinkers' Hollow

    The Elopement of Megan O'Flaherty With the Ghost From Tinkers' Hollow

    By Michael Johnson.

    Product Code: E79000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 3w., 1 either gender, extras.
    • 100 min.
    In 1900, Megan O'Flaherty, a young, plain barmaid in an Irish pub, is to be married in four days to the village braggart. When she hears a voice whisper to her from the shadows, it is like no other she has ever heard. She falls passionately in love for the first time, not with her husband-to-be, but with a ghost! Her father, her fiancé and the entire village have much to say about this situation as they fill the stage with Irish wisdom and hilarity! Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. King Stag

    King Stag

    Adapted by Stanley Vincent Longman. From the play by Carlo Gozzi.

    Product Code: K43000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 9m., 3w., 4 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In this adaptation, the kingdom of Sependippo appears before our eyes with the help of the magnificent wizard, Durandarte. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  5. Nathan the Wise

    Nathan the Wise

    By Paul D'Andrea after G.E. Lessing. Translation by Gisela D'Andrea and Paul D'Andrea.

    Product Code: N54000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 6m., 3w. (Doubling and expansion possible.)
    • 100 min.
    This Western classic on religious tolerance is set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. Two young people, Jew and Christian, are drawn to each other in love and come up with an imaginative resolution to the issue of which is the one true faith. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Nicky's Secret

    Nicky's Secret

    By Vin Morreale Jr.

    Product Code: N53000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 4m., 5w. (extras.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 50 min.
    Nicky's boyfriend is the star athlete and most popular guy at River Ridge High, and everyone thinks her life is perfect until the bruises start to show and it becomes common knowledge that her boyfriend is abusive. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow LB6000

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    By Mary and Andrew Arnault. Adapted from the story by Washington Irving.

    Product Code: LB6000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 8m., 7w. (may be expanded by adding women's chorus members and townsfolk.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 85 min.
    The villagers of Sleepy Hollow are either greatly impressed with or totally dislike the new schoolmaster named Ichabod. Matters come to a head when Ichabod is accosted by a fiendish apparition, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Things turn for the worst when Ichabod disappears, leaving only behind a song in the wind, and a new legend is born. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  8. House of the Seven Gables

    House of the Seven Gables

    By Vin Morreale Jr. Adapted from the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    Product Code: H84000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 8m., 6w. (plus extras who may be doublecast.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    The cruel and cunning Colonel Pyncheon brings a curse down on his entire family. More than a century later, a young woman arrives to find the last of the family, and the mysterious House of the Seven Gables, beset by dark secrets and untimely deaths. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    By Robert Thomas Noll. Adapted from the book by Charles Dickens.

    Product Code: O61000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 21 roles to be played by a minimum of 12 actors (plus extras if desired.)
    • 85 min.
    This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life of cruel poverty and crime by an act of unselfish courage. Filled with an atmosphere of mystery, its major characters—Fagin, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble, Nancy, and the Artful Dodger—are some of the most theatrically realized characters in all of literature. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    Book and lyrics by R. Eugene Jackson. Music by David Ellis.

    Product Code: BJ1000

    • Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 5w., 3 either gender, extras.

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    • 75 min.
    This version offers just enough Cajun flavor in both story and song to keep interest at a high peak while closely following every move in the original fairy tale. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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