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American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020) AN6000

Goat Song Revel

Product Code: GE3000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

A one-person Greek chorus named Doris shows up at Job’s house and lets him know that her arrival most likely means that they’re in a Greek drama, but whether it’s a tragedy or comedy isn’t clear. To complicate matters, God and Satan meet at Job’s house, where Satan says he wants to play a game he made up called “Job.” Dionysus also stops by, realizes that they’re heading for a tragedy and begins his plan to turn this tragedy into a comedy. Learn More

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A Virtual Whodunnit

By Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus.

Product Code: V47000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 5m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Preston Sterling is hosting a Zoom meeting with his family and closest staff to celebrate his birthday. The bitter old billionaire is bullying everyone once again when—ZZZZZT! Sterling is electrocuted through his phone. Enter Rockford Sloan, homicide detective. Through a series of Zoom conferences, Sloan questions the usual suspects, all of whom had a motive. With three possible endings, every performance means you’ll never be sure whodunnit. This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More

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As She Likes It

Edited and compiled by Karen Ruch. Written by Lori M. Myers, Sean Adams, Marjorie Bicknell, David Nice, Sue Lange, Barbara Trainin Blank and Sandra Fenichel Asher.

Product Code: AM2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4 to 18w., 1 to 2 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

As She Likes It features women from Shakespeare’s canon who step outside of the male-dominated context of their original works. These familiar women from classic stories may have had muted voices in Shakespeare’s plays, but here they take center stage. These plays offer great roles for women, opportunities for thoughtful scene study, educational exploration and a larger conversation about how these women’s stories resonate in our current era. Learn More

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D.O.A.

By Elizabeth Lovelady. Based on the screenplay by Russel Rouse and Clarence Greene.

Product Code: DG2000

Drama | Melodrama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 5 to 12m., 4 to 9w.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

In this adaptation of the 1950s classic noir film, Frank Bigelow walks into a police station to report a murder: his own. After a wild night of drinking at jazz clubs with sexy women, he wakes feeling ill and learns he has been poisoned. With only hours left to live, Bigelow frantically searches for his killer and the reason he was targeted. Will the killer be brought to justice? Learn More

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Artifice

By Anne Flanagan.

Product Code: AF3000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 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

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Romeo and Juliet or The Old "You-Know-I-Really-Love-You-But-My-Father-Really-Hates-You" Blues

By Nancy Linehan Charles. From William Shakespeare

Product Code: R74000

Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 4m., 4w. (plus 21 either gender.)

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

No one can remember why Romeo and Juliet's families hate one another, but the feud continues on. Tracking the star-crossed lovers, and the downward spiral of a courtship to its horrible conclusion, the story tellers fire off comments of premature marriage. Learn More

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The Smell of the Kill

By Michele Lowe.

Product Code: SH2000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3w. (3 male offstage voices.)

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Approx. Run Time: 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

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House of the Seven Gables

By Vin Morreale Jr. Adapted from the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Product Code: H84000

Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 8m., 6w. (plus extras who may be doublecast.)

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

The cruel and cunning Colonel Pyncheon brings a curse down on his entire family. More than a century later, a young woman arrives to find the last of the family, and the mysterious House of the Seven Gables, beset by dark secrets and untimely deaths. Learn More

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The Moonstone

By R.N. Sandburg. Adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins.

Product Code: MC2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 6 to 7m., 5 to 6w., 1 child, with doubling, may be expanded.
Approx. Run Time: 105 min.

The British officer Herncastle steals a sacred Indian gem, the moonstone, and his life dissolves into ruin, and in an act of revenge he bequeaths the moonstone to his niece, Rachel, and her life is thrown into chaos until the moonstone is returned. Learn More

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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
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

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Approx. Run Time: 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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