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  1. The Rememberer R68000

    The Rememberer

    By Steven Dietz. Based on the unpublished memoir As My Sun Now Sets by Joyce Simmons Cheeka, as told to Werdna Phillips Finley.

    Product Code: R68000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 13m., 12w. (may double to as few as 9m., 8w., plus possible dancers and musicians.)
    • 90 min.
    This is the true story of Joyce Cheeka, a young Squaxin Indian girl, who is forcibly taken from her home and placed in a government-run school in 1911. Joyce succeeds in forming a bridge between this new world and the world of her ancestors. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. The Slave Dancer's Choice

    The Slave Dancer's Choice

    By Frank Higgins

    Product Code: SH6000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 2w. (plus others of either gender as desired.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    Drawn from historical sources about the Atlantic slave trade, this play follows the journey of Danny who faces a difficult choice when he is tricked into serving on a slave ship in exchange for his family's freedom. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  3. The Book of Ruth

    The Book of Ruth

    By Deborah Lynn Frockt.

    Product Code: BA3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 2w.
    • 90 min.
    Hannah and her granddaughter, Ruth, sit imprisoned in a Nazi internment camp, struggling each day to care for each other. Ruth is desperate to feed her starving grandmother, but Hannah is focused only on nourishing her granddaughter's soul. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  4. Nothing But the Truth

    Nothing But the Truth

    By Ronn Smith. Adapted from the novel by Avi.

    Product Code: N51000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | TYA
    • 5m., 5w. May be expanded up to 38 speaking roles, some gender flexibility possible.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Geared towards middle and high school, Nothing But the Truth follows a 14-year-old student who has broken a faculty rule that requires all students to stand at “respectful, silent attention” while the national anthem is playing. There are no easy answers presented in this play, which is ultimately concerned with the critically important issues of respect, personal freedom and patriotism. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    By Max Bush. From novel by Alexandre Dumas (pére).

    Product Code: TD3000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 15m., 6w. (10m., 4w. with doubling. Many small roles and extras possible.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Longing to be a musketeer, d'Artagnan heads for Paris, meeting an agent, Milady. He also confronts Count de Rochefort, a mysterious swordsmen. d'Artagnan challenges Athos, Porthos, and Aramis to a duel, but when guards arrive, he joins them for a musketeer victory. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. 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.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 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
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  7. The Taste of Sunrise

    The Taste of Sunrise

    By Suzan Zeder.

    Product Code: TL6000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4 to 5m., 5 to 6w., up to 10 either gender (including 1m. Deaf actor required and 1m. deaf actor strongly suggested.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    This bilingual play in American Sign Language or spoken English takes place in the mind and memory of a Deaf man. He journeys through his childhood from the fever dream that took his hearing, to the language of nature which he shares with his beloved father, to the deaf school where his mind explodes with the discovery of sign language. This title is a moving prequel to Suzan Zeder's acclaimed Mother Hicks.

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    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  8. Across the Plains: The Journey of the Palace Wagon Family

    Across the Plains: The Journey of the Palace Wagon Family

    By Sandra Fenichel Asher.

    Product Code: A70000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 3w. Expandable to 12 roles, plus extras as desired.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Young Virginia Reed and her family journey from Illinois to California with a wagon train that became known as the Donner Party. Folk songs and dramatic action show the courage of the pioneers trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by the blizzard of 1846-7. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  9. OZ

    OZ

    By Patrick Shanahan.

    Product Code: O55000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1m., 2w.
    • 90 min.
    It's 1899 in Chicago, and Frank Baum is putting the finishing touches on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but is missing a few key elements…the title and the ending! Suddenly his Victorian study becomes a magical land. In the heart of this frenzy is the whole creative process, and in the end we realize that Baum is the real wizard of Oz, but he needs an assistant … our imaginations. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Nutcracker ... The Musical

    Nutcracker ... The Musical

    Book and lyrics by Debbie Meyer. From E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

    Product Code: N81000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 17+ actors, either gender, flexible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Young and mature audiences alike will love this story of the Nutcracker, the Mouse King, the Sugar Plum Fairies and the other enchanting characters. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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