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  1. The Café Mocha Murders

    The Café Mocha Murders

    By Deanna Strasse.

    Product Code: CT3000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.
    • 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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  2. American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020) AN6000

    Shattering

    By Pat Montley.

    Product Code: S4J000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.
    • 105 min.
    Jonah has just been released from juvenile commitment into the foster care of Jacqueline Dawson, whose estranged son he helped to murder. Jonah is ordered to torture and kill Dawson—or be killed himself. The instructions come from the gang leader through Jonah’s girlfriend LaBelle, who is pregnant. Jonah and LaBelle plot the murder, even as his relationship with the strict but caring Dawson develops and his imagined visits with her dead son jar his conscience. Learn More
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  3. Yoo-Hoo and Hank Williams

    Yoo-Hoo and Hank Williams

    By Gregory S. Moss.

    Product Code: Y35000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.
    • 90 min.
    In a reimagined version of the American South in the ’50s, the Yoo-Hoo girl is an eccentric romantic. Her neighbors, including the shy paperboy, are dreamy and eccentric too. This strange, simple life becomes more complicated when the Yoo-Hoo girl meets a seductive salesman she thinks is the man of her dreams. But he changes, revealing a darker side. When the paperboy confesses his love to the Yoo-Hoo girl, the two prepare to escape, only to be confronted by the salesman, with dark and bitter consequences. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Artifice

    Artifice

    By Anne Flanagan.

    Product Code: AF3000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 4w.
    • 100 min.
    A story about a struggling artist who dies only to reappear at a sale of his work. A farcical take on celebrity and success and an affectionate tribute to loyalty and love. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. House of the Seven Gables

    House of the Seven Gables

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

    Product Code: H84000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 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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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    By Robert Thomas Noll. Adapted from the book by Charles Dickens.

    Product Code: O61000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 21 roles to be played by a minimum of 12 actors (plus extras if desired.)
    • 85 min.
    This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life of cruel poverty and crime by an act of unselfish courage. Filled with an atmosphere of mystery, its major characters—Fagin, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble, Nancy, and the Artful Dodger—are some of the most theatrically realized characters in all of literature. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. 'Hoods

    'Hoods

    By Jerome McDonough.

    Product Code: HE5000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School
    • 12 to 20 actors, flexible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    Young people tell about the harsh reality of gangs, drugs, warfare and death on the streets of the "hood." Learn More
    $7.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adapted by Randal Myler from the book by Mark Twain.

    Product Code: A50000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 10m., 4w.
    • 120 min.
    Huck and friends are hit with the adventure of their lives, when Jim escapes slavery and Huck helps navigate the path to freedom. The two meet some very interesting characters along the way, and end up in more trouble than they started with. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. Our Country's Good

    Our Country's Good

    By Timberlake Wertenbaker. Based on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker.

    Product Code: O42000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 5w., with doubling. Variations possible.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 135 min.

    In 1789 in an Australian penal colony, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play is produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments--brilliantly juxtaposed against the civilizing influence of theatrical endeavor.

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    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  10. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    By Charlotte Chorpenning. From Mark Twain.

    Product Code: A43000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 9m., 5w. (5 boys, 1 girl, extras as desired.)

      Livestream Rights Available

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    • 110 min.
    This Mark Twain novel adapted by Charlotte Chorpenning, provides an especially good look at traditional U.S. values. Tom Sawyer's attempt to avoid them, keeping the familiarity of the tale alive. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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