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The Princess Who Lost Her Hair

By Jeremy Kisling. Based on the story by Tololwa Mollel.

Product Code: PL7000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 2w., 3 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Princess Kalendi refuses to help a bird, who turns out to be very powerful. He brings a drought upon the earth and takes the princess' hair, a symbol of prosperity to her people, from her head. A beggar helps the princess regain her dignity and kindness as they work together to appease the bird with a selfless act that restores the kingdom and the princess' hair. Learn More

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The Bad Children

Book and lyrics by Shirley Jackson. Music by Allan Jay Friedman.

Product Code: B01000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 7 or more.
Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A modern musical fairy tale in which Hansel and Gretel are "problem children" (i.e. brats) and the witch is a charming old girl with a college degree in witchcraft. Hansel and Gretel find the witch's gingerbread house and start tearing it to pieces. Learn More

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Bocón!

By Lisa Loomer.

Product Code: B36000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 6 actors, with doubling; Flexible.
Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

A fable about a 12-year old boy who is fleeing from Central America to Los Angeles and his search to "find his voice" to tell his story. Learn More

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Capture the Moon

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

Product Code: CB2000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 4m., 2w. (4 of which may play multiple roles.)
Approx. Run Time: 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

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The Fair Maid of the West

By Kevin Theis. From the plays by Thomas Heywood.

Product Code: F57000

Comedy
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Cast Size: 14m., 2w. (Doubling necessary.)
Approx. Run Time: 135 min.

This story recounts the misadventures of lowborn tavern girl, Bess Bridges, and her true love, a gentleman soldier named Spencer. Learn More

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I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night

Book, music and lyrics by Sheldon Allman and Bob Pickett.

Product Code: I01000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 7m., 12+ w. Optional chorus, Draculettes and grave robbers may be added.
Approx. Run Time: 95 min.

John and Mary, both painfully naive, find themselves stranded near a medieval castle in Steubenville, Ohio. They soon meet Dr. Frankenstein, Igor, Count Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy and many more assorted characters who all want the pair for different purposes. They're in for quite an adventure trying not to become a new experiment! Learn More

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The Love of the Nightingale

By Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Product Code: L68000

Drama | Tragedy
High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 7m., 7w. (two variable choruses.)
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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The Magic Flute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera in play form. Dramatized by June Walker Rogers.

Product Code: M10000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 14 m. or w., extras as desired.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Follow the adventures of Prince Tamino in this opera libretto simplified into an enchanting play. Learn More

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Maricela de la Luz Lights the World

By José Rivera.

Product Code: MB3000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School
Cast Size: 3m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 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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A Midsummer Night's Dream or The Night They Missed the Forest for the Trees

By Nancy Linehan Charles. Adapted from Shakespeare.

Product Code: MD1000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 4m., 6w., 9 either gender, extras as desired.
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

In this rollicking adaptation of Shakespeare's play, teens, fairies, workers and royalty collide in a forest on a summer night, and are bedazzled by a prankster. The fairy queen falls in love with an ass, the teens fall in and out (and in) love with each other, well-meaning goofs stumble into their 15 minutes of fame and fairies weave magic to bring it all to a happy end. Three streetwise storytellers pull the audience at breakneck speed toward the moon-drenched conclusion. Learn More

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