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  1. Antigone

    Antigone

    Freely adapted by Emily Mann from the play by Sophocles.

    Product Code: AC1000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w. (2 either gender, plus chorus.)

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 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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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. One Bad Apple

    One Bad Apple

    Book and lyrics by Raphe Beck and Christopher La Puma. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma.

    Product Code: O66000

    • Comedy | Satire
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 4w. (plus 3 either gender, chorus.)
    • 90 min.
    In the very corporate world of Creation, two competitive angels pit Adam and Eve against each other to see which prototype will be the more successful model for the human race, leading to a musical battle of the sexes. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. 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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  4. Perseus Bayou: The Search for the Cajun Medusa

    Perseus Bayou: The Search for the Cajun Medusa

    Book by Mary Hall Surface. Music by David Maddox. Lyrics by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox.

    Product Code: PA2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 5m., 4w. (playing multiple roles. Can be expanded,with no doubling, to 6m., 6w. plus 4 of either gender.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    This musical takes the Greek myth of Perseus and his quest for Medusa to post-Civil War Louisiana, to save the bayou from the evil Polydectes. He encounters the grey sisters, and eventually ends up in the dark heart of the swamp, Medusa's lair. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Capture the Moon

    Capture the Moon

    By Ernest Joselovitz and Harry Michael Bagdasian. Adapted from the Jewish folktales of Chelm.

    Product Code: CB2000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 2w. (4 of which may play multiple roles.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 50 min.
    This lighthearted play for 4- to 11-year-olds, is based on the traditional Yiddish tales of Chelm, portrayed as a mythical Eastern European shtetl. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  6. Ezigbo, the Spirit Child

    Ezigbo, the Spirit Child

    An Igbo story as told by Adaora Nzelibe Schmiedl. Dramatized for the stage by Max Bush.

    Product Code: E69000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1 to 3m., 7 to 8w., plus extras.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Long ago, the wife of a powerful chief longed for a child, but her womb was possessed by the spirit of an Ogbanje, an invisible spirit-child. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  7. 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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  8. Maricela de la Luz Lights the World

    Maricela de la Luz Lights the World

    By José Rivera.

    Product Code: MB3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 3w.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    When Maricela de la Luz and her brother Riccardo come out of a mall, the world suddenly changes. The two-headed Goddess of the U.S.-Mexico Border explains to them that something is out of balance in the mythic world! Learn More
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  9. Bocón!

    Bocón!

    By Lisa Loomer.

    Product Code: B36000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 6 actors, with doubling. Flexible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 55 min.
    ¡Bocón! tells the story of 12-year-old Miguel who flees a repressive military regime in Central America for Los Angeles. A natural storyteller and irrepressible "big mouth" or bocón, Miguel loses his voice when his parents are taken and begins a metaphorical journey north to the City of Angels. Along the way, he finds his voice and the courage to cross the border to a new life. Miguel's story is relevant to immigrant children from all parts of the world, and to any child who is learning the many meanings of finding one's own "voice." Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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