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Shakespeare in Mind

Conceived by Michael Bigelow Dixon. Written by Janet Allard, Niko Tsakalakos, Constance Congdon, Richard Dresser, Ginna Hoben, Brooke Jennett, Mollie LaFavers, Jon Jory, Jeremy Paden, Valerie Smith, Dean Staley, Justin Wright and Elizabeth Wong.

Product Code: S2D000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 10 to 50 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

Haunting and hilarious, this play takes a strange and wondrous trip through a dozen "post-modern Elizabethan" plays, poems and songs. And just like Will's own plays, this dynamic production interweaves comedy, romance, song and tragedy as it presents contemporary characters interacting with Macbeth and Duncan, Juliet and Titus Andronicus, Othello and Desdemona, and 20 other classic characters. Learn More

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Jocasta

By Sandra Perlman.

Product Code: J71000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This play combines both comedy and tragedy in the story of three women—mother, daughter and servant—bound together by blood and loyalty. In this new twist on the Oedipus complex, we take a look at the myth from Jocasta's complex point of view as a wife, devoted mother and conflicted daughter. These are strong and complex women who struggle against their fate—and sometimes one another. But their love and devotion is the link that binds them together in life and death.

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The Blue House

By José Cruz González.

Product Code: BL3000

Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

This is the story of 13-year-old Maricela, who lives in a vibrant Chicago neighborhood with a rich and sad history. Haunting dreams of strangers from another time lead Maricela to an abandoned lot where the mysterious Blue House once stood and where Maricela encounters the spirit of a mysterious African-American woman. Told in English and Spanish, this thrilling story, set during the 1919 Race Riot and present day, celebrates the power of courage, love and forgiveness. Learn More

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Oedipus: A Story of Gold and Shadow

Adapted by Ann H. Brockette.

Product Code: O88000

Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5m., 2w. with an ensemble of up to 40 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This adaptation is a story of a great man who pays the ultimate price for trying to outsmart the gods. As Greek mythology shows, however, no human can rise to the power of the gods who rule over us. Learn More

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Antigone

Freely adapted by Emily Mann from the play by Sophocles.

Product Code: AC1000

Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 3w. (2 either gender, plus chorus.)

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Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

Antigone must battle her uncle, King Creon, for the right to bury her dead brother. While most versions view Antigone as a righteous heroine, this version takes a fresh look at her rigidity as an equal contributor to the story's devastating ending. The path taken here—vengeance will breed vengeance—is a shattering lesson for our times. Learn More

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China Doll (The Imagined Life of an American Actress)

By Elizabeth Wong

Product Code: CD3000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 2w.-all Asian; or 5m., 3w.-multicultural. Roles are doubled.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This is the story of a Chinatown girl who dreamed of making it in Hollywood. This sensual fantasia takes inspiration from the remarkable life of Anna May Wong, the first and brightest Chinese American movie star. Learn More

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House of the Seven Gables

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

Product Code: H84000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 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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Letters to a Student Revolutionary

By Elizabeth Wong.

Product Code: L74000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 3w. (Expandable chorus, multicultural cast.)

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Approx. Run Time: 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

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Quazimodo!

By David Koren. Based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Product Code: Q16000

Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Satire | Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 3m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame, falls for the gypsy Esmeralda, who is framed for the murder of her lover Phoebus, and tries to save her from execution by bringing her into the sanctuary, but the archdeacon allows the Parisians to hang h Learn More

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The Love of the Nightingale

By Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Product Code: L68000

Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 7m., 7w. (two variable choruses.)

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Approx. Run Time: 105 min.

A retelling of the Philomele story that passionately demonstrates the violence that stems from enforced silence. Philomele is raped and when she threatens to talk, the rapist cuts out her tongue. She then kills her rapist's son in an awful act of violence. A cycle of retribution begins which only ends when the gods transform Philomele into a nightingale. Learn More

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