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Swagger

Product Code: S2Z000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 3 either gender.

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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
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 3m., 4w.

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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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14

By José Casas.

Product Code: FF8000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

14 was inspired by the true-life event in May 2001 in which a smuggler abandoned 30 Mexicans crossing the desert, resulting in 14 deaths from dehydration. It is a starting point for exploration to investigate the complexities of people living on the border, not giving answers but raising difficult questions. The mosaic of flawed and struggling people included emphasize the importance of investigating this topic in a way that calls not only for action and conversation but, ultimately, for a collective solution.

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Terminus

By Gabriel Jason Dean.

Product Code: TV5000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Terminus tells the story of Eller, a progressive white matriarch, and her mixed-race grandson, Jaybo, who live together in a ramshackle house down by the railroad tracks in rural Georgia. Their unique love has seen them through, but when Eller’s mind begins to fade with dementia, her violent past in the segregated South haunts her from the very walls of the old family home. As she descends terrifyingly closer toward a horrifying truth, Jaybo’s capacity to love his grandmother is put to the test. 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
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.

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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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Holy Laughter

By Catherine Trieschmann.

Product Code: HH3000

Comedy
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2 to 4m., 3 to 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

On her first Sunday behind the pulpit, newly appointed priest Abigail faces a motley crew of worshipers and a church facing financial and spiritual ruin. Not entirely sure what God thinks, she gives into one wild night that sends her down a tunnel of doubt and fear. It looks like the church may fall apart completely, but Advent has a way of turning fiascoes into blessings, and as Christmas approaches, Abigail and her congregation manage to find joy amidst the chaos. Learn More

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Yoo-Hoo and Hank Williams

By Gregory S. Moss.

Product Code: Y35000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 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

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Dead and Buried

By James McLindon.

Product Code: DG9000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Perdue gets a job at the local graveyard, claiming to live with her aunt while searching for her missing mother. But her story begins to fall apart. She is actually living in the homeless shelter; her mother died shortly before she arrived and is buried in the cemetery. Perdue confides that she doesn’t remember her mother’s face and hopes that a photo will prove that she is the woman in Perdue’s oldest memory. But there are no photos, and Perdue must decide how far she’ll go to learn the truth about her mother. Learn More

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Reunion

By Gregory S. Moss.

Product Code: RD6000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m.
Approx. Run Time: 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

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The Gravedigger's Lullaby

By Jeff Talbott.

Product Code: GD7000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Baylen is a gravedigger, a working-class man trying to keep food on the table in a world where other people make the rules. There’s a baby who can’t sleep at home, and plenty of holes to be dug. But a chance encounter with a rich young man may bring the hope of a different life. What will Baylen do? This play is a bold and gripping contemporary drama about a time that has passed. And how little things have changed. Learn More

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