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Boswell

Product Code: BN2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 3w., 1 to 14 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

Joan, an American graduate student, journeys to a Scottish noblewoman’s estate to research iconic literary giant, Samuel Johnson. Instead, she discovers the chatty, bawdy journals of James Boswell, long hidden in the estate’s attic. Coaxed by her new friend, Joan pours over his wild adventures in the Scottish Hebrides with Johnson. Heart and mind spar wittily in this two-period dramatic comedy about friendship, travel and the written word. Learn More

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Midnight and Moll Flanders

By Marie Kohler. Adapted from the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

Product Code: MS8000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 6w., with doubling. Expandable ensemble.

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Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Moll Flanders’ drive for love and survival led her on many adventures—flings, marriages and a career as an infamous thief. The play begins on the eve of Moll’s hanging at Newgate Prison as she tells her story to the minister, who is determined to offer her a last chance at salvation. Midnight and Moll Flanders follows a transformation journey for both Moll and the minister, exploring the influence of gender, class, free will and luck in an era as wildly entrepreneurial as our own. Learn More

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The Mysterious Disappearance

By Kirt Shineman.

Product Code: MT3000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1m, 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing? Learn More

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Of Men and Cars

By Jim Geoghan.

Product Code: OB9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5 to 12m., 2 to 8w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

If you want to have an intimate or meaningful conversation with a man, put him in a car. This semi-autobiographical play chronicles 26 years in the life of Jim and his father, who was a World War II bomber pilot. As a child, Jim thought his dad was amazing. As he grew up, he realized Dad was not as amazing as he thought and let him know it. Once an adult, Jim also realized he himself was not as amazing as he thought … and he made it up to his dad before it was too late. Learn More

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Kennedy: Bobby's Last Crusade

By David Arrow. Featuring the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy.

Product Code: K45000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1m.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This solo play portrays Robert F. Kennedy during his short, electrifying campaign for president of the United States. Told from his perspective, this play follows Bobby from his announcement to enter the presidential race on March 16, 1968, to his last speech on June 4. The causes for which he crusaded and policies he championed are remarkably relevant and prescient of the politics and concerns of today. The play contains many of Kennedy’s most famous and impactful speeches, as well as his private apprehensions and more personal, less publicized events. Learn More

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Tinker to Evers to Chance

By Mat Smart.

Product Code: TV7000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Baseball fans know all about commitment and hope. But in life outside the ballpark, that dedication can be harder to hold on to. Lauren is thinking only about the monumentally important playoff game she and her mother are about to attend, but her mother has her own agenda. In this touching play, set against the dual backdrops of the 2003 and 1906 Chicago Cubs teams, three die-hard fans and one die-hard player reveal the redeeming power of baseball. Learn More

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Stay With Me Awhile

By Mary E. Johnson and Barbara Means Fraser.

Product Code: S3A000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community
Cast Size: 2m., 4w., 2 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Every milestone in life has a story. But there is one milestone story we seldom tell—the story of our experience of being present for the death of a loved one. Stay With Me Awhile is a compilation of vigil stories from across cultures, religions, political views and socio-economic circumstances that were collected over a seven-year period. Each story was entirely unique, and many of the scenes described were snapshots of lifelong relationships played out as the end of life approached. Learn More

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Molly's Hammer

By Tammy Ryan. Based on the book Hammer of Justice by Liane Ellison Norman.

Product Code: MQ7000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

In 1980, Molly Rush, a Pittsburgh housewife and mother of six, walked into a G.E. plant and took a hammer to the nose cone of a nuclear warhead in protest of the buildup of our nuclear arsenal. She and her fellow activists went to trial to sound the alarm, and the world was pulled back from the brink of nuclear annihilation for the time being. Told with humor and love, Molly’s Hammer shines a light on how the choice of ordinary people to take action is what is needed to save our world.

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The Pretenders

By Charles Edward Pogue. Translated and adapted from Henrik Ibsen's The Pretenders.

Product Code: PM8000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 8 to 13m., 4 to 6w.

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Approx. Run Time: 150 min.

Two men of honor both claim the right to Norway’s crown, but wily Bishop Nicholas stymies their dreams, pursuing his own mysterious ends. This lean, swift-paced version of Ibsen’s turbulent tale dissects the timeless motives that the political and powerful must ever ask themselves—do I do what I do for the greater good or for personal glory?—and explores the nature of power and personal ambition, the obligation of leadership and the search for national unity. Learn More

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The Man She Was

By Ric Averill.

Product Code: MQ4000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 6 to 24m., 4 to 18w., 1 to 20 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

This gender-bending historical drama is based on Emma Edmond's memoir when she enlists as Frank Thompson and serves as a male nurse, spy and soldier during the Civil War. A "don't ask, don't tell" moment speaks clearly to the complexities of today's gender-fluid culture and the final life and death actions of the play give the story a Shakespearean feel, as she faces and accepts her own gender identity. Learn More

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