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  1. Foxholes

    Foxholes

    Product Code: FG7000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 10 min.
    Two soldiers facing death try to find meaning in life. Learn More
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  2. The Cutting

    The Cutting

    Product Code: CT4000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 1w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 10 min.
    An interminably ill man tries to persuade his daughter-caretaker to help him die—a request complicated by the ambivalent nature of their past and present relationship. Learn More
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  3. Any Night AL8000

    Any Night

    By Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn.

    Product Code: AL8000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 1w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    When Anna, a troubled modern dancer struggling with the death of her mother, moves into a new basement suite for solace and solitude, she finds herself drawn into a tender relationship with Patrick, the helpful young man living above her. But why is she suffering violent behavior in her sleep? Part romance, part thriller, this mind-bending puzzle explores the thin line between trust and fear and the immeasurable power of the subconscious. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. The Beautiful Dark

    The Beautiful Dark

    By Erik Gernand.

    Product Code: BL8000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 2w.
    • 90 min.
    Nancy's life is turned upside down when she learns her 18-year-old son didn't fail out of college, but was kicked out for writing a graphic play about an on-campus killing spree, carried out by a young man who sounds eerily like her son. As the evidence mounts against Jacob, Nancy is forced to confront her darkest fear: Is her son capable of the unthinkable? And can she stop him before it's too late? Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Voodoo Macbeth

    Voodoo Macbeth

    By Tonya Hays. Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

    Product Code: V45000

    • Tragedy
    • High School | College
    • 3 to 5m., 3 to 9w., 6 to 8 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    Shakespeare's classic tragedy comes to life in a unique way. The setting is in New Orleans where Marie Laveau invites everyone to come and watch this tragic tale. The use of puppetry, voodoo dolls and gris-gris add to the surreal setting. Dead characters appearing as zombies from the voodoo tradition lend an eerie, evil ambience to the entire macabre tale. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  6. Collateral Bodies

    Collateral Bodies

    By Erin Rachel Kaplan.

    Product Code: CN7000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7w.
    • 75 min.
    An exploration of human rights as women relate experiences of sexual trafficking, rape, female circumcision and domestic violence through fictional stories based in truth. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Oedipus: A Story of Gold and Shadow

    Oedipus: A Story of Gold and Shadow

    Adapted by Ann H. Brockette.

    Product Code: O88000

    • Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 2w. with an ensemble of up to 40 either gender.
    • 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
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  8. 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
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

    The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

    Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the book by Christopher Paul Curtis.

    Product Code: WB2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 3w., 1 either gender (some doubling).

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    After living in Flint, Michigan, the Watson family decides that their oldest son needs to live down south with his grandmother to straighten up his act. The family heads south—toward a horrific moment in American history: the bombing of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church during which four young black girls are killed.

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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. The Smell of the Kill

    The Smell of the Kill

    By Michele Lowe.

    Product Code: SH2000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3w. (3 male offstage voices.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    Three wives exchange confidences while their unseen spouses play golf in the dining room. When the men mistakenly lock themselves in a basement meat locker the women are faces with the decision of letting them out or keeping them there permanently. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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