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  1. Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

    Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

    Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

    Product Code: MB8000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | TYA
    • 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

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    • 45 min.
    This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action. Learn More
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  2. Murder's Bad But Monday Can Kill You!

    Murder's Bad But Monday Can Kill You!

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: MA8000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 5w.

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    • 90 min.
    Harry's back! That's right, Harry Monday, that Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and gumshoes, is hot and on his latest case. As he investigates a triple murder at Restful Glen Psychiatric Annex, he learns that all the inmates have multiple personalities. And the three murder victims are all the same guy! Learn More
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  3. Pandora's Revenge

    Pandora's Revenge

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: P64000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 1m., 1w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 30 min.
    Just what sort of package has Marvin Hanover opened, he wonders, as he tries to sell insurance to Miss Thorndyke. First, she really isn't Miss Thorndyke—she's Ida Simpkins, and she doesn't actually live at the address she gave him over the phone. She seems to have more questions for Marvin than he ever saw on any application. Panicked by the evening news and her rundown neighborhood, she grills Marvin like a hamburger patty. Lines fly fast and ferociously in this cat-and-mouse adventure with Marvin wondering just who's the cat and who's the mouse. Learn More
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  4. Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe, the Final Mystery

    Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe, the Final Mystery

    By Julian Wiles. Based on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

    Product Code: N41000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 12m., 7w. (2 boys playing 52 parts).

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    • 100 min.
    In 1847, Edgar Allan Poe is reported to have boarded a steamer for an overnight voyage to New York City. Five days later, Poe was found delirious on a Baltimore street and died soon thereafter. What transpired over those missing days has remained forever a mystery...until now. This imaginative play, utilizing Poe's macabre stories and poems, ponders what might have happened to him on the dreary nightmare voyage at the end of his life. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  5. Mystery of the Peanut-Butter Spacemen

    Mystery of the Peanut-Butter Spacemen

    By Phil Gilbreath.

    Product Code: MN7000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Middle School | High School | Community
    • 8 actors, flexible
    • 60 min.
    A group of junior high friends receive strange messages from their radio during one of their weekly Fedora Club meetings that might be from an actual UFO. The club members try to decipher the radio voices and names. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  6. If It's Monday, This Must Be Murder!

    If It's Monday, This Must Be Murder!

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: I52000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 4w. (can be expanded to 8m.,5w.)

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    • 90 min.
    Posing as a golf-playing psychiatrist at the Shady Meadows Country Club, Harry investigates why the club members start dropping like divots! Learn More
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  7. Death and Taxes

    Death and Taxes

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: D60000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.

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    • 90 min.
    Ever wonder what goes on at a small-town city council meeting? In Hendricks, they're looking for a murderer. Not only was a man murdered, but he was an employee of the IRS. Slowly it becomes apparent the entire city council had seen the man, and each of them seems to be hiding something. This easy-to-stage intrigue is chock-full of small-town characters and hilarious dialogue. Learn More
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  8. Breaking and Entering

    Breaking and Entering

    By Vin Morreale, Jr.

    Product Code: B75000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.

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    • 55 min.
    A charming con man breaks into what he thinks is an empty apartment only to find a mysterious woman waiting for him. Learn More
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  9. You're A Grand Old Flag

    You're A Grand Old Flag

    By R. Eugene Jackson. Music by George M. Cohan.

    Product Code: Y34000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • large and flexible.

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    • 120 min.
    The original United States Constitution, making its first tour of the nation, arrives in Libertyville, U.S.A. (or your hometown). The town has prepared a grand celebration only to find out the Constitution is missing. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  10. Murder Most Fouled-Up

    Murder Most Fouled-Up

    By Nikki Harmon.

    Product Code: M79000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.

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    • 110 min.
    Uncle Ridgely has hidden $20 million. The terms of his will give the family only 24 hours to find the money or the ghosts of murdered relatives are doomed to wander forever. Three of the ghosts pitch in to help the undeserving living so their spirits can Learn More
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