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  1. The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    Product Code: WK5000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 2w., 6 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    During the morning video announcements at Grover's Mill High, something not of this Earth crash lands in the football stadium. Inspired by Orson Wells’ radio broadcast, this modern adaptation is designed to be rehearsed and performed live online. Through a series of Zoom calls, our morning-show hosts find themselves covering the biggest story in human history. Martians have landed and are taking over the Earth. Can our group of scrappy high-schoolers survive the invasion? This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  2. Future, Here Cover FG1000

    Future, Here

    By Jeremy F. Richter.

    Product Code: FG1000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 5 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    Welcome to Future, an unincorporated village monitored by Society and populated by five randomly selected children. It is driven by a national effort to develop “appropriately adapted young citizens.” They are constantly fed a steady stream of news and pop culture on their smartphones and meet daily to share what they’ve learned. Having lived in Future for 12 years, the residents are now 18, and today is their last day together, their final meeting before they learn of their next residence outside of Future. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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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. Twisted Tales of Poe

    Twisted Tales of Poe

    By Philip Grecian. From the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

    Product Code: TU6000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7 to 9m., 4 to 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.

    Four stories from Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven and The Black Cat are told in the form of a staged radio drama, complete with sound effects and music. The prisoners of Leverett Street Jail, Death Warrant Division, await their fates as three of the doomed souls tell their stories, and we enter the mind of a fourth.

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    $39.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Mary

    Mary

    By Thomas Bradshaw.

    Product Code: MN8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 2w.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    At the height of what TIME magazine dubbed "AIDS hysteria" in 1983, college student David invites his boyfriend home to his parents' house in Maryland where nothing has changed since the 1800s—including the slave quarters. This play confronts hypocrisy and oppression with exhilarating wit.

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    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Aunt Leaf

    Aunt Leaf

    By Barbara Wiechmann.

    Product Code: AF7000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | TYA
    • 3 actors, gender flexible. Expansion possible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    It is 1910. An 11-year-old girl is sent into the woods by her widowed great-aunt to look for the ghost of her dead husband. The girl brings back made up stories to cheer up the old woman and soon comes to believe her own stories are true. The shared adventure, both dangerous and hopeful, serves as a dual passage for the child into adolescence and the old woman into a more peaceful death. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  7. One Lane Bridge

    One Lane Bridge

    By Stephen Gregg.

    Product Code: O74000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 2m., 1w., 2 to 10+ either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 30 min.
    A snowy night. A drive through a mountain canyon. Sixteen-year-old Eli agrees to drive a friend of a friend to Home Depot. But Eli's terrible driving sparks an argument, and the conversation takes an odd, dark turn. Eli finds himself driving too fast, not because he's going to be late, but because he wants out of that car. One Lane Bridge is relentlessly compelling, genuinely scary and contains one moment so startling that your audience is guaranteed to talk about it afterward. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  8. Quixote

    Quixote

    Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha. Book by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. Music by Dennis Poore. Lyrics by Flip Kobler.

    Product Code: QD5000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 10w., 11 either gender. May be doubled to a cast of 13 or expanded to up to 50.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    Feeling pressured to fit in, Alonzo Quijana, dreams of a better time, when one man could change the course of tomorrow. With the fragile line of popularity, the very thin grasp of sanity, could making the world a better place come from one lone voice in the crowd? Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. Martina: Lost and Found

    Martina: Lost and Found

    By R.N. Sandberg.

    Product Code: MF2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 4w., 6 either gender (2m., 3w. with doubling).

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 65 min.
    Martina is struggling with the new changes of being a teen. This fantastical, realistic whirlwind exposes confronting fears, and important choices to set a course of growth and responsibility. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    By Ric Averill. Adapted from the book by Mary Shelley

    Product Code: F99000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    In this retelling, a mysterious laboratory, a dark cemetery and a university classroom provide the setting for Victor Frankenstein and his university friends, students who dabble in the mystical science of regeneration. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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