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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Buckshot

    Buckshot

    By Courtney Meaker.

    Product Code: BM4000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community
    • 4m. (1 non-cisgender), 3w.
    • 90 min.
    Alana and Mel are officially moving in together. While packing, Alana receives a phone call from her brother. Unearthing a pact made by two scared children and facing memories of brutally attacking an old friend, Alana tries to figure out if she’s capable of following through on the pact while her friends try to bring her back from the brink. Buckshot explores the lengths to which we go in order to protect our siblings and ourselves, the realities of abuse and the common ups and downs of being in relationships. Learn More
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  4. 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
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Two-Bit Taj Mahal

    Two-Bit Taj Mahal

    By Paul D'Andrea.

    Product Code: TJ1000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 2w., extras can be used for crowd scenes.
    • 105 min.
    New Liberty, Missouri is an American Midwestern farming town dealing with a dangerous loner-bully who falls in love with a young drifter and is transformed by her. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. The Glory of Living G73000

    The Glory of Living

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: G73000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w. (with doubling.)

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 90 min.
    This is the story of Lisa, a 15-year-old girl, and her marriage to Clint, an ex-con twice her age. Systematically abused by her husband, Lisa is coerced into helping him commit crimes of varying magnitude, including murder. Learn More
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  7. The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw

    By Douglas Jones. Based on the novella by Henry James.

    Product Code: TC6000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w. (includes 1 boy, 1 girl.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Genuine chills are provided in this tale of a governess, left in charge of a boy and a girl at a lonely estate, who begins to suspect that the ghosts of two former servants have hideous designs upon the children. If she is right, the children are in terrible peril, but if she's wrong, she herself might be driving them mad. With every twist in the plot (or turn of the screw) the tension increases until something—or someone—must snap. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  8. '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
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  9. The Love of the Nightingale

    The Love of the Nightingale

    By Timberlake Wertenbaker.

    Product Code: L68000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 7w. (two variable choruses.)

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    • 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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  10. Spring Awakening

    Spring Awakening

    Translated and adapted by Edward Bond. From the play by Frank Wedekind.

    Product Code: S61000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • large, variable, doubling possible.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    Edward Bond's brilliant adaptation of Wedekind's original work examines the youthful tragedy of awakening sexuality in an atmosphere of repression. Learn More
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