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  1. Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet

    Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet

    By Caleen Sinnette Jennings (in association with William Shakespeare).

    Product Code: E51000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 17w. May be doubled to 14w.
    • 90 min.
    What are the women of Elsinore Castle doing while Hamlet plots revenge? Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet is a play in verse which explores the lives and motives of Ophelia and Gertrude. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. The Face of Emmett Till

    The Face of Emmett Till

    By Mamie Till-Mobley and David Barr III.

    Product Code: F93000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 3w. (Male characters can be 7 to 9. Doubling possible.)
    • 135 min.

    The Face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Miss., in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for "allegedly" whistling at a local white woman. The ramifications of this act are still being felt today. As retold for the first time within a creative, nonfictional genre by Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and Mamie’s heroic crusade for justice.

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  3. Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    By Helen Edmundson. Adapted from the novel by Leo Tolstoy.

    Product Code: A17000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 8m., 10w. (Doubling.)

      Limited Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 180 min.
    The adulterous Anna travels towards disintegration and death while the young landowner, Levin, travels toward maturity and a sense of wholeness. Learn More
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  4. The Mill on the Floss

    The Mill on the Floss

    By Helen Edmundson. Based on the novel by George Eliot.

    Product Code: M88000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 4w. (Doubling, expandable.)

      Limited Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 165 min.
    Based on the feminist novel by George Eliot, this play's central concept is having three Maggies to show how Maggie is shaped by her environment and circumstances, from impetuous passion to moral restraint. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Butterfly

    Butterfly

    By Jerome McDonough.

    Product Code: BK2000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 15+ actors, flexible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    This version begins in 1938 when an American unites in a Japanese marriage with the geisha, Butterfly. When he leaves without her, she waits faithfully for him to keep his promise to return. From her house overlooking the harbor of Nagasaki, she and their son watch for his ship. The date is December 6, 1941—the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He finally does return to the devastated city after World War II has ended, and he finds ... ? Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  6. Crimes At The Old Brewery

    Crimes At The Old Brewery

    By Tim Kelly.

    Product Code: CM8000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • College | Community
    • 11m., 10w. (a smaller cast with doubling).

      LLivestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    A villain called Jack O'Lantern ruled a community of murderers, robbers and assorted cut-throats in a notorious tenement house, the Old Brewery, in New York's toughest crime area. True to history, this tale recounts events in its tunnels and shadowy passageways. The vice squad prepares to demolish the structure, but its dangerous tenants have no intention of living elsewhere. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  7. A Separate Peace

    A Separate Peace

    By Nancy Pahl Gilsenan. Based on the book by John Knowles.

    Product Code: S79000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8m.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 90 min.
    John Knowles' classic tale of two high-school boys standing on the threshold of war and adulthood comes to the stage. Gene, full of fear of the future, and Phineas, a consummate charmer, are best friends. It seems the perfect match until the fear in Gene and the world around him can no longer tolerate the life in Finny. This is the story of both learning to face the world and face oneself. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  8. Adventure of the Speckled Band

    Adventure of the Speckled Band

    Adapted by Tim Kelly from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: AG2000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 6m., 8w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the murder of a woman who screamed "The band-the speckled band!" as her last words. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  9. Bloody Jack

    Bloody Jack

    By Tim Kelly

    Product Code: BJ5000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • College | Community
    • 4m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In the late 1800's, Jack the Ripper has murdered seven women in London. Dr. Thaddeus Sergeant is obsessed with solving these murders and looks at everyone visiting him as a suspect. 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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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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