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Unpacking Mother

Product Code: U45000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 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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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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Mockingbird

Adapted by Julie Jensen. From the National Book Award-winning novel by Kathryn Erskine.

Product Code: MS2000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 3m., 3w., 3 or more either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Caitlin is an 11-year-old girl on the autism spectrum. After a mass shooting takes her brother away, she is alone with her grieving father and a cacophony of children at school. She struggles to understand empathy, what facial expressions mean and why a drawing might have more than one color. We see the world from Caitlin’s point of view. We struggle as she does but also take comfort in the times when she finds a friend, draws a multicolored mockingbird and can finally cry for her brother. 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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The Layover

By Tracy Wells.

Product Code: LN5000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 1m., 1w., 7 to 14 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 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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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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Left to Our Own Devices

By Dale Dunn and Lynn Goodwin.

Product Code: LN4000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 7 to 8w., 3 to 4 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 65 min.

A multicultural ensemble takes on characters who dive headlong into their experiences of trying to stay personally connected in the digital age. Actors take on many characters to create a cacophony of viewpoints: an internet influencer, a gender fluid go-getter, a mother and son who desperately want to be seen, the popular students with a tendency to bully, and the misfits who strive to be understood. These unique voices create a dynamic theatrical whirlwind that is full of humor and insight. Learn More

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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
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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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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Yana Wana's Legend of the Bluebonnet

By María F. Rocha and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce. Music and lyrics by Héctor Martínez Morales.

Product Code: Y37000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 5w., 2 to 6 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Thirteen-year-old Maria is having trouble in school, so her mom sends her to stay with her Coahuiltecan grandmother for discipline and perspective. There, Maria is told the story of Yana Wana, who followed a revered deer to find water and save her people. Yana Wana’s story gives Maria a renewed sense of self and family pride. A beautiful, original play that illustrates the power of ancestral heritage and offers a seldom-seen glimpse into the timeless spirituality of Indigenous people. Learn More

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