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  1. The Mysterious Disappearance MT3000

    The Mysterious Disappearance

    By Kirt Shineman.

    Product Code: MT3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m, 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 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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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Swing State S4U000

    Swing State

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: S4U000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 3w.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 105 min.
    Recently widowed, Peg tends to the native prairie that rises behind her rural Wisconsin home. Her solitary days are interrupted only by visits from Ryan, a family friend with a checkered past. After a mysterious theft, she places a call to the local authorities—unwittingly setting off a series of events that will forever change their lives. As Peg and Ryan fight to regain each other's trust, they learn how to forge a sense of hope in a time when it feels like everyone’s way of life is in danger of disappearing. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  3. Heartland HJ1000

    Heartland

    By Gabriel Jason Dean.

    Product Code: HJ1000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 1w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    Dr. Harold Banks is a retired professor of comparative literature and Afghan Studies, waiting for Geetee, his adopted daughter, to return from teaching in Afghanistan, her native country. When Nazrullah, an Afghan refugee, suddenly arrives on his Nebraska doorstep, the two men become unlikely roommates. Heartland is the story of a father, his determined daughter, and a journey toward mercy. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Unpacking Mother

    Unpacking Mother

    By Karen Schaeffer.

    Product Code: U45000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2w.
    • 75 min.
    Sisters Cassie and Kathryn have had little communication since Kathryn left for college. Upon their mother’s death, Kathryn, long absent, returns home to help Cassie, the primary caregiver, sort through their mother’s hoarded possessions. As they unpack boxes, they encounter their younger selves and unearth truths about their mother’s illness and father’s secrets. Unpacking allows both sisters to exorcise the demons that shaped their adult lives so they can meet on the other side, open to a new relationship. Learn More
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  5. Death Valley: A Love Story DH8000

    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
    • Community | Professional
    • 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 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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  6. The Great Beyond GF2000

    The Great Beyond

    By Steven Dietz.

    Product Code: GF2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 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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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. The Layover LN5000

    The Layover

    By Tracy Wells.

    Product Code: LN5000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 1m., 1w., 7 to 14 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    A couple of oddly intrusive passengers. A perplexing older couple. New parents. A loud family with a bratty kid. This is the company Dana keeps while she waits in a crowded airport for her next flight to … well … to wherever she’s going. But not all is as it seems as Dana, a self-proclaimed “bad girl,” tries to pass the time during this never-ending layover. As she interacts with the other waiting passengers, Dana begins to learn that if she wants to get where she’s going, she’ll have to figure out who she really is. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  8. Proprioception PN2000

    Proprioception

    By Marilyn Millstone.

    Product Code: PN2000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.
    • 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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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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

    On Pine Knoll Street

    By Mark Cornell.

    Product Code: OB3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.
    • 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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  10. American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020)  AN6000

    The Cayuga Canal Girls

    By Laura King.

    Product Code: CS2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5w.
    • 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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