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

    Shattering

    By Pat Montley.

    Product Code: S4J000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.
    • 105 min.
    Jonah has just been released from juvenile commitment into the foster care of Jacqueline Dawson, whose estranged son he helped to murder. Jonah is ordered to torture and kill Dawson—or be killed himself. The instructions come from the gang leader through Jonah’s girlfriend LaBelle, who is pregnant. Jonah and LaBelle plot the murder, even as his relationship with the strict but caring Dawson develops and his imagined visits with her dead son jar his conscience. Learn More
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  2. Roleplay RE5000

    Roleplay

    Product Code: RE5000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w., 2 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Devised by college students, inspired by real situations and written with humor, honesty and daring authenticity, Roleplay provides a window into the pressures facing college students today. The play follows a year in the life of a diverse group of college students and explores student perspectives on love, sex, power and consent. Roleplay offers a powerful new tool for addressing toxicity and sexual violence on college campuses. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Yasmina's Necklace Cover Y36000

    Yasmina's Necklace

    By Rohina Malik.

    Product Code: Y36000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 110 min.
    Meet Abdul Samee: his father is Iraqi, and his mother is Puerto Rican—but if you ask him, he’ll say he’s Italian. Longing to shed his cultural identity, he changes his name to Sam, marries an American and does everything in his power to turn his back on his heritage. But when Sam meets Yasmina, a beautiful woman from his father’s homeland, he begins to learn that a tree without roots cannot stand for long. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. AACT Vol. 3 Cover

    Making Sweet Tea and Other Secrets

    By Paul Elliott.

    Product Code: MR4000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w., 1 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Dottie and Ruth have always kept their lives in order, living each day in rural isolation and contentment. All of that changes when the sheriff drops off a battered teenage girl and asks them to keep her safe. Neither is prepared for the role of savior, and they are even less inclined when they find out the girl is really a boy and the person who almost killed her is her father. This play refers to all the hidden bigotry, prejudice and even brutality a town will turn a blind eye to, until forced to bring those secrets to light and fight back. Learn More
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  5. Yoo-Hoo and Hank Williams

    Yoo-Hoo and Hank Williams

    By Gregory S. Moss.

    Product Code: Y35000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.
    • 90 min.
    In a reimagined version of the American South in the ’50s, the Yoo-Hoo girl is an eccentric romantic. Her neighbors, including the shy paperboy, are dreamy and eccentric too. This strange, simple life becomes more complicated when the Yoo-Hoo girl meets a seductive salesman she thinks is the man of her dreams. But he changes, revealing a darker side. When the paperboy confesses his love to the Yoo-Hoo girl, the two prepare to escape, only to be confronted by the salesman, with dark and bitter consequences. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Reunion

    Reunion

    By Gregory S. Moss.

    Product Code: RD6000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Community | Professional
    • 3m.
    • 110 min.
    Twenty-five years ago, Mitch, Peter and Max were best friends. After a harrowing graduation night, they grew up and grew apart. But tonight is their 25th high-school reunion, and the gang is back together to celebrate and recreate the wildness of their teenage years with a night of exhilarating intoxication and risky behavior. A darkly comic drama, Reunion explores the risks and pleasures of revisiting the past, examines the precariousness of male identity and reveals the fraught and dangerous aspects of male bonding. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Two-Bit Taj Mahal

    Two-Bit Taj Mahal

    By Paul D'Andrea.

    Product Code: TJ1000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 2w., extras can be used for crowd scenes.
    • 105 min.
    New Liberty, Missouri is an American Midwestern farming town dealing with a dangerous loner-bully who falls in love with a young drifter and is transformed by her. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  8. The Bluest Eye

    The Bluest Eye

    Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond from the novel by Toni Morrison.

    Product Code: BC4000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2 to 3m., 6 to 10w.
    • 90 min.
    In this story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio, 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved by her family and schoolmates. Instead, she faces constant ridicule and abuse. She blames her dark skin and prays for blue eyes, sure that love will follow. This powerful adaptation explores the crippling toll that a legacy of racism has taken on a community, a family and an innocent girl. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  9. Blue Surge

    Blue Surge

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: BA9000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Curt, a small-town Midwestern cop meets Sandy, an 18-year-old prostitute, in a raid on a massage parlor. He finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Sandy and begins a relationship with her that puts everything he's worked for at risk. But Curt sees a future with Sandy, an escape from his difficult past. As the two of them chase the American Dream, they must learn a skill that is foreign to them both: they must learn to hope. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  10. The Glory of Living

    The Glory of Living

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: G73000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w. (with doubling.)

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

      Contact our customer service department to order or for more information.
    • 90 min.
    This is the story of Lisa, a 15-year-old girl, and her marriage to Clint, an ex-con twice her age. Systematically abused by her husband, Lisa is coerced into helping him commit crimes of varying magnitude, including murder. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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