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Digging Up Dessa

Product Code: DH2000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

Dessa is a 21st-century girl with no shortage of struggles, secrets and mysteries to solve. After a museum field trip reveals that the pioneering 19th-century paleontologist Mary Anning’s legacy has been buried by history because of her gender and lack of formal education, Dessa decides that she’s going to fight to earn her friend the credit she deserves. With help from her once-rival, Dessa sets to work unearthing the secrets hidden beneath the surface of the past and present for Mary’s history and her own future. Learn More

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Swagger

By Eric Coble.

Product Code: S2Z000

Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 3 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A momentary act of violence caught on camera destroys the lives of three people. Now they need to tell us their version of how it really went down. Jordan is a quiet, nerdy, almost eighth-grade graduate. Leela, bubbling and following her passion, has just opened her own clothing boutique near Jordan’s school. And Daniel is an awkwardly sweet police officer on foot patrol in the neighborhood. The three of them lead us through their lives, dreams and the snap decisions that led them to that fateful moment. Learn More

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OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist

Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma.

Product Code: OA8000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 3m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 65 min.

This joyful musical is a retelling of Oliver Twist set in modern-day Rio de Janeiro that tackles issues of poverty, inequity and injustice. Oli, an orphan girl, asks the goddess of the sea for a “little bit more” in her life. Con man Falcão and thief Zé Esquiva hope to use Oli’s sweet nature to steal from a rich widow. In the favela, Oli meets Nancí, who begins to teach Oli how to read. But when police officer Sykes gets involved, everyone has to choose between doing what is easy and what is right. Learn More

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Spark

By Tom Arvetis.

Product Code: S2T000

Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 6m., 4w., gender flexible.
Approx. Run Time: 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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The Story of Opal

Adapted by Gale Childs Daly. From the book by Opal Whiteley.

Product Code: S2V000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

This play is an adaptation of Opal Whiteley’s diary. She was a little girl who lived at the turn of the 20th century in a lumber camp in Oregon. Opal’s world was exceptional, and she recorded every day, lovingly and carefully, in her own special language. Everyone who enters Opal’s world will remember it. Her life is portrayed here without sentiment—it was a hard, impoverished time in a grim environment, and yet she managed to find good in the world and engaged it with an “understanding heart.” Learn More

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Joan the Girl of Arc

By Darrah Cloud.

Product Code: J74000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 3 to 6m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

When Joan D'Arc, a shepherd in Domremy, France, 1420s, hears a voice while tending sheep one day, she can't believe what—and whom—she's hearing. But the voice is joined by others who claim they're saints and ask her to go to war for France. In a suit of armor made especially for her, she leads the French army to win the Hundred Years' War, using the wits and methods of the real teenage girl that she was. But when she refuses to deny the voices she heard, she is sentenced to death.

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Augusta and Noble

By Carlos Murillo.

Product Code: AL6000

Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 4 to 9m., 3 to 6w.
Approx. Run Time: 85 min.

Gabi, a 12-year-old girl who has lived her whole life amid a vibrant Latino community in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago, begins asking questions about her heritage. Told in English peppered with Spanish, this play for young audiences celebrates the rich history and resilience of the many immigrants who call Chicago home. Learn More

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Pedro and the War: A Cantata

Translated and adapted by Manon van de Water and Andy Wiginton. By María Inés Falconi.

Product Code: PL2000

Drama
Young Audiences | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 3m., 1w., up to 18 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 50 min.

After a bombing raid, a frightened Pedro is trapped in the rubble with an elderly neighbor, Don José. Through a tender exchange of stories, Pedro learns about the resiliency of the human spirit and the power of imagination to restore and sustain humanity even in times of crisis. When he awakes in the hospital, he cannot find Don José. Did he imagine the stories underground?

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