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Death Valley: A Love Story

By Sandra Fenichel Asher. Inspired by the journals, collages and photographs of Carol Emerson, LCSW, and Dr. David Nutter.

Product Code: DH8000

Drama
Recommended For: Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

In the winter of 2003, during their first glorious year of being in love, Carol and David spend a vacation week in Death Valley. On their return home, he is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Months of chemotherapy follow, culminating in a bone marrow transplant that goes awry, ending David’s life. Throughout their ordeal, Carol chronicles her passage through love, loss, grief and recovery. This play grew from the real journals, photographs and collages that make this universal story poignantly specific. Learn More

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Bonnie and Claire

By Bo Wilson.

Product Code: BM9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Sisters Bonnie and Claire have spent their lives estranged. After 45 years, their parents now gone, Claire is forced to move back home with Bonnie, who bitterly resents the intrusion while denying the evidence of her own decline. The sisters' young niece, Zoe, tries to help them while urging reconciliation, but there's a lot of stubborn history blocking the road. With most of the action taking place in cars, this play is a literal journey through the practicalities and the pitfalls of aging, agency and admitting when we need someone. Learn More

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Life/Choice

Product Code: LN7000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

An older pro-life supporter and a young pro-choice supporter confront each other at a rally. Learn More

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The Great Beyond

By Steven Dietz.

Product Code: GF2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

The Great Beyond reunites two sisters who have lost their beloved father and whose contentious relationship with each other remains unresolved. At the urging of their husband and girlfriend, respectively, the sisters decide to conduct a seance to contact their deceased father. Amazingly, this seance does produce the result they hoped for … in a completely unexpected way. The Great Beyond is a comic drama about loss, hope and finding the power to believe. This play is a companion piece to The Ghost of Splinter Cove. Learn More

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Casserole

By Pam Harbaugh.

Product Code: CS3000

Comedy
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

A normal day goes into high gear when Clair Wilson learns that a publisher saw her recipe for “Mayonnaise Casserole” and wants to feature her in a new cookbook. Her grumpy husband isn’t happy with the situation, and their daughter suddenly shows up with stunning news and a mysterious friend. Arriving for dinner are the editor and photographer, who have a hidden agenda for the cookbook. A wild menu is set before them. A food-slinging argument erupts, revealing secrets and setting the stage for Clair’s loving wisdom. Learn More

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Proprioception

By Marilyn Millstone.

Product Code: PN2000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Kylie is a young prima ballerina with a torn ACL and a chip on her shoulder. Esther is an elderly widowed Holocaust survivor estranged from her only child. Both are patients of renowned Black physical therapist Mike Sheffield. When Sheffield decides that the two women should share appointments, attachments form, conflicts erupt, secrets surface and lives unravel. A play about how we heal … and how we don’t. Learn More

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

Goat Song Revel

By Dan Borengasser.

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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On Pine Knoll Street

By Mark Cornell.

Product Code: OB3000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 115 min.

Thelma is a colorful and quick-witted 87-year-old woman battling her memory. Her devoted daughter Marilyn, with whom she now lives, is trying to make the best of the situation. Curtis, her neighbor, is a writer and stay-at-home father of a special-needs child. When Marilyn asks Curtis to care for her mother while she is at the beach, it sets in motion a friendship that tethers two families. On Pine Knoll Street is an intimate look at the joy and fragility of life, the meaning of home, and the things we do for love. Learn More

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Shattering

By Pat Montley.

Product Code: S4J000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 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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The Cayuga Canal Girls

By Laura King.

Product Code: CS2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 95 min.

Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, N.Y., to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities. Learn More

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