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  1. Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo MT4000

    Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo

    By G. Riley Mills.

    Product Code: MT4000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 3 to 6m., 3 to 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    Travel back in time to the 1930s, when the once-popular Avondale Zoo has fallen into disrepair. With the Birmingham Parks Board threatening to close the zoo and sell off its remaining animals to the highest bidder, the legendary Miss Fancy must devise a plan to save the zoo before it's too late! Filled with music, magic, comedy and dancing to entertain people of all ages, Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo will have audiences' toes tapping and their imaginations shining! Learn More
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  2. Proprioception PN2000

    Proprioception

    By Marilyn Millstone.

    Product Code: PN2000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.
    • 120 min.
    Kylie is a young prima ballerina with a torn ACL and a chip on her shoulder. Esther is an elderly widowed Holocaust survivor estranged from her only child. Both are patients of renowned Black physical therapist Mike Sheffield. When Sheffield decides that the two women should share appointments, attachments form, conflicts erupt, secrets surface and lives unravel. A play about how we heal … and how we don’t. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Objects in the Mirror

    Objects in the Mirror

    By Charles Smith.

    Product Code: OB1000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 1w.
    • 120 min.
    Shedrick, a Liberian refugee living in Australia, explains his journey from his war-torn home to refugee camps, where he survived squalor, hunger and disease. He was rescued by his Uncle John and assumed the identity of John’s dead son. Now safe in Australia, Shedrick wants to reclaim his identity. Rob, a white attorney, believes it can happen with a simple legal procedure, but John is ferociously against it, forcing Shedrick to choose between reclaiming his identity and his loyalty to the man who saved his life. Learn More
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  4. Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges

    Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges

    By Christina M. Ham. Music by Gary Rue.

    Product Code: RD8000

    • Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
    • 11 to 16m., 11 to 20w., 5 to 9 either gender.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 55 min.
    In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. When the white families learned of Ruby’s enrollment, they pulled their children from her class, leaving Ruby and her teacher the only ones in the classroom for the school year. Her family watched helplessly as federal marshals escorted Ruby to school each day past protesters jeering and threatening her life. This musical explores a little girl’s unbeatable courage in the face of adversity. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. The Seat of Justice

    The Seat of Justice

    By Julian Wiles.

    Product Code: S2R000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 12m., 7w., 4 boys, 3 girls.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In 1947, a small group of parents started a movement that would eventually lead to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. The Seat of Justice chronicles the historic Briggs v. Elliott desegregation case from rural Clarendon Country, S.C., to the halls of the United States Supreme Court and celebrates the brave citizens, both black and white, who fought for justice and equality, taking their turns in the seat of justice and making decisions that will change the course of history. Learn More
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  6. River City

    River City

    By Diana Grisanti.

    Product Code: RD7000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    After his death, Mary discovers a photograph of her father from a past he never talked about. She goes on a quest to uncover a half-century of family secrets buried in Kentucky. Her investigation transports us to 1968, to an orphanage, across town from a once-burgeoning black business district. As Mary dives into a torrent of bloodlines and color lines, she confronts not only the memories of her family, but the ghosts that haunt one American city. Learn More
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  7. Loving

    Loving

    By Peter Manos.

    Product Code: LM1000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 1 to 2w., 1 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.

    In the 1950s, Richard Loving, a white man, loved Mildred Jeter, an African American. The story of an oppressed interracial marriage and a family torn apart by prejudice and hate, this title celebrates this triumph of love that led to a landmark United States Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia.

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  8. Higgins in Harlem

    Higgins in Harlem

    By Lawrence Thelen.

    Product Code: HG8000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 4m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is reset in Harlem in 1938 during the Harlem Renaissance. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, discovers Eliza Doolittle, a homeless, Harlem girl and transforms her into a high-class woman. Eliza forgoes a relationship with Freddie Hill, who is in love with her, and must choose between a platonic existence with Higgins or a life on her own. Learn More
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  9. We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915

    We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915

    By Jackie Sibblies Drury.

    Product Code: WG9000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 2w.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the 20th century. The play descends from collaborative to absurd as a group of idealistic actors attempt to recreate the extinction of the Herero tribe at the hands of their German colonizers. Eventually the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, and what seemed a faraway place and time comes all too close to home. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  10. Civil War Voices

    Civil War Voices

    By James R. Harris. Featuring songs of the period with arrangements by Mark Hayes.

    Product Code: CN8000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 6 to 19m., 4 to 19w.
    • 110 min.
    This musical tells the compelling and passionate true stories of real people who lived through the Civil War, often using the actual words they left behind in diaries, letters and other writings. Appealing to all audiences, the songs and stories bring to life the incredible drama of this stirring era. Learn More
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