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MLM Is for Murder (or, Your Side Hustle Is Killing Us)

Product Code: MS1000

Comedy | Satire
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Side hustles—it seems like everybody has at least one these days. For Minerva Ross, it is to write and narrate her own feminist true crime podcast about how and why women commit murder. Across the country, Felicity Evanston has just started selling ridiculously patterned leggings for a multilevel marketing company. The two haven’t crossed paths in years, but when Felicity starts killing off her competition, both women suddenly experience the kind of overnight success they’ve been so desperately craving. Learn More

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The Café Mocha Murders

By Deanna Strasse.

Product Code: CT3000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Despite the raging storm outside, it seems like a perfectly normal night for an employee meeting at the local coffee shop, The Bean Shack. That is until the lights go out, and someone winds up dead. In this over-the-top whodunit, it’s all about latte art, caffeine content and the imminent threat of death. Learn More

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A Virtual Whodunnit

By Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus.

Product Code: V47000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 5m., 4w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Preston Sterling is hosting a Zoom meeting with his family and closest staff to celebrate his birthday. The bitter old billionaire is bullying everyone once again when—ZZZZZT! Sterling is electrocuted through his phone. Enter Rockford Sloan, homicide detective. Through a series of Zoom conferences, Sloan questions the usual suspects, all of whom had a motive. With three possible endings, every performance means you’ll never be sure whodunnit. This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More

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Ghosts in the Machine

By Eric Coble.

Product Code: GD8000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 8 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More

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Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act Version)

By Eric Coble.

Product Code: GD9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 7 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, seven very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A one-act digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More

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Macabre: Tales From Edgar Allan Poe

By Jules Tasca.

Product Code: MR2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 7 to 18m., 2 to 4w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This title consists of four one-act plays, inspired by Poe’s tales. The titles include a morality play, William Wilson (7m., 1w.); a science-fiction piece, The Valdemar Case (3m., 1w.); a murder mystery, The Imp of the Perverse (2m.); and Poe’s only comedy, The System (6m., 2w.). Learn More

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Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round

By Edward F. EmanuEl

Product Code: LM2000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 3 to 6m., 2 to 9w., 2 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

Radio host Lancelot T. Terrierre reveals live on the air that he not only knows who the Lead Rings Murderer is, he has locked himself and his crew into the studio with the culprit and plans to expose the murderer to the public! Every time a murder is discussed on the air, a murder takes place in the studio! Show ratings are going up as actors are going down! Only at the end will the murderer and the ingenious method used to silence the radio cast be discovered. Learn More

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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose

Adapted by Michael Menendian and John Weagly. From The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Product Code: S2N000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5 to 7m., 3 to 9w., up to 12 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

In this family-friendly mystery, Sherlock Holmes must discover the identity of a man who lost his hat and goose in a late-night scuffle, and then the countess of Morcar’s rare and valuable blue carbuncle is found stuffed down the goose’s throat. The pursuit of the thief leads Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Covent Garden Market and all over the streets of wintry London.

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Detective Partner Hero Villain

By Brett Neveu.

Product Code: DF9000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: College | Professional
Cast Size: 4 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

A detective and his partner search for Supernova (the villain), who hates The Fantastic Phenomenon (the hero) so much that he is killing superhero super-fans. The detective's world quickly begins to unravel as he questions his own belief in law and justice and starts to peel back the good-versus-evil veneer, exposing the realities of life and death and the ultimate consequences of trusting those who tell us to "keep the faith." The black-and-white morality of superheroes is turned on its head in this play. Learn More

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Delirium's Daughters

By Nicholas Korn.

Product Code: DF8000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 5m., 3w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

When four suitors arrive to ask for the hands of Signor Di Lirio's three lovely daughters, the old gentleman agrees, as long as they have the approval of their mother. And that's where the problems begin—the old man's wife died three years ago, and he has gone so mad with grief that he still believes she is alive. Before all is done, the four men are forced to dress up as their own mothers! Learn More

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