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  1. The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    Product Code: WK5000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 2w., 6 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    During the morning video announcements at Grover's Mill High, something not of this Earth crash lands in the football stadium. Inspired by Orson Wells’ radio broadcast, this modern adaptation is designed to be rehearsed and performed live online. Through a series of Zoom calls, our morning-show hosts find themselves covering the biggest story in human history. Martians have landed and are taking over the Earth. Can our group of scrappy high-schoolers survive the invasion? This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  2. Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act) GD9000

    Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act Version)

    By Eric Coble.

    Product Code: GD9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School
    • 7 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, seven very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A one-act digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  3. Spark S2T000

    Spark

    By Tom Arvetis.

    Product Code: S2T000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 6m., 4w., gender flexible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Pan is three days away from the most important exam of her life, and her friends, Jude and Farren, are counting on her. No more distractions or mistakes. Together they’re to compete in a dangerous virtual reality that pits them against a mysterious enemy and ultimately determines their rank in the community. Life in Sanctuary is too precarious not to be taken seriously. But when Pan encounters two young strangers who bring an inconceivable possibility to her community, she begins to question all she knows. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Crush

    Crush

    By Stephen Gregg.

    Product Code: CR1000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 4 to 5m., 10 to 12w., 2 to 10 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 105 min.
    Bark is convinced that he's going to get a lead in his school production, but his audition goes awry when the new student enters. Only Bark can see that she's actually the lead body of a six-bodied alien creature. In a breathtaking climax, Bark saves the world, revitalizes the town, earns the love he deserves and gets a reward that no one could have anticipated. This hilarious and heartbreaking play is about what it means to love someone and what it means to be human. Learn More
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  5. Apocalypse

    Apocalypse

    By Richard Bellamy.

    Product Code: AL3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | Community
    • 7m., 8w., 3 either gender. Doubling and extras possible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    News of a vast alien aircraft in orbit! Panic in the streets! A plague of zombie-vampire hybrids breaks out! Many months later, Mabes is no longer a shallow teenager attached to her iPhone. As a member of the Undaunted survivalist group, she must fight against cannibals, zombie-vamps and a mutant mountain lion—as well as the Insurgents, a rival survivalist band.

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  6. ARK 5

    ARK 5

    By Sandra Fenichel Asher.

    Product Code: AK3000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2 to 3m., 3 to 4w., 3 or more gender neutral as desired.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    The ARK System began taking control of Earth Enterprise in 2050 A.D. as a technical aid to global commerce. In this futuristic re-envisioning of the Joan of Arc story, Joan is called by an unexplained presence to fulfill an ancient prophecy to save Earth Enterprise. Many questions are raised about the use and abuse of technology, individual rights and responsibilities, the role of faith and the power of music. Learn More
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  7. Nathan the Wise

    Nathan the Wise

    By Paul D'Andrea after G.E. Lessing. Translation by Gisela D'Andrea and Paul D'Andrea.

    Product Code: N54000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 6m., 3w. (Doubling and expansion possible.)
    • 100 min.
    This Western classic on religious tolerance is set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. Two young people, Jew and Christian, are drawn to each other in love and come up with an imaginative resolution to the issue of which is the one true faith. Learn More
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  8. The Tolstoy Story Play

    The Tolstoy Story Play

    By V. Glasgow Koste.

    Product Code: T84000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce
    • Middle School | High School | TYA
    • Flexible.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 40 min.
    Inspired by Tolstoy's tellings of Russian folktales a century ago, this play is an ideal ensemble piece with a fresh blend of vaudeville, commedia, realism, farce and poetry. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  9. The Martian Chronicles M64000

    The Martian Chronicles

    By Ray Bradbury.

    Product Code: M64000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • Large, flexible.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 110 min.
    A young Martian asks another if there could be any life on Earth. "Impossible," is the answer. "There's too much oxygen!" However, an expedition from Earth has landed on Mars and is destroyed. The crew of a later rescue mission is committed to a Martian insane asylum for thinking themselves "Earth men." Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  10. Time After Time

    Time After Time

    By John Mattera. Based on the book by Karl Alexander. Revised and edited by Stephen Barrows.

    Product Code: T55000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w. (extras as desired.)
    • 120 min.
    Amy is an attractive and lonely clerk at a bank in San Francisco who helps a time-travelling H.G. Wells track down Jack the Ripper. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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