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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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Bonnie and Claire

By Bo Wilson.

Product Code: BM9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Sisters Bonnie and Claire have spent their lives estranged. After 45 years, their parents now gone, Claire is forced to move back home with Bonnie, who bitterly resents the intrusion while denying the evidence of her own decline. The sisters' young niece, Zoe, tries to help them while urging reconciliation, but there's a lot of stubborn history blocking the road. With most of the action taking place in cars, this play is a literal journey through the practicalities and the pitfalls of aging, agency and admitting when we need someone. 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 Cutting

Product Code: CT4000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

An interminably ill man tries to persuade his daughter-caretaker to help him die—a request complicated by the ambivalent nature of their past and present relationship. Learn More

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jj's place

By José Casas.

Product Code: J77000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Mario is a hardworking, struggling auto mechanic in East LA who is left to raise his son, JJ, after the passing of his mother. In order to honor her memory and cope with his lack of connection with his father, JJ begins to build machines and arcade games out of leftover cardboard from his dad’s handyman shop. It is through JJ’s imagination and ingenuity that he is able to connect to himself, his family, and his community. In the end, father and son come to an understanding as they look toward a brighter future together. 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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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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Rinse, Repeat

By Domenica Feraud.

Product Code: RE2000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

After fighting for her life for four months, Rachel finally goes home for a trial weekend. But what happens when the people you love most, the ones you believe want the best for you, are the ones causing the most damage without even knowing it? Where do you go when the place you feel you most belong might be the place that almost killed you in the first place? Rinse, Repeat sharply conveys the painful truth about a woman’s fight for her life in the face of an eating disorder. Learn More

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Reunited Shorts

By Len Cuthbert.

Product Code: RE3000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 1 to 5m., 2 to 7w.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Reunited Shorts is an evening of theatre comprised of six unique short plays about reunions. They are about the awkward, humorous and emotional experience of humans coming together … again. The vignettes include Benched; The Gift Exchange; Table for Two Rendezvous; You, Me. Me, You.; delilah.; and Last Dance. Learn More

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Searchers

By Laurie Brooks.

Product Code: S4H000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 6m., 6w., 6 to 25 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

With humor, conflict and theatricality, a chapter in the lives of three teens unfolds. Sammie’s parents are divorcing. Ben has been in a traumatic car accident that left his mother disabled. And loner Isaac longs to be part of a crowd that secretly makes fun of him. All three characters search for answers as a friendship between them grows. An optional interactive forum between the characters and the audience offers a bonding experience, brainstorming possible solutions to the issues presented in the play. Learn More

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