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  1. Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    By Robert Thomas Noll. Adapted from the book by Charles Dickens.

    Product Code: O61000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 21 roles to be played by a minimum of 12 actors (plus extras if desired.)
    • 85 min.
    This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life of cruel poverty and crime by an act of unselfish courage. Filled with an atmosphere of mystery, its major characters—Fagin, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble, Nancy, and the Artful Dodger—are some of the most theatrically realized characters in all of literature. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe, the Final Mystery

    Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe, the Final Mystery

    By Julian Wiles. Based on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

    Product Code: N41000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 12m., 7w. (2 boys playing 52 parts).

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    In 1847, Edgar Allan Poe is reported to have boarded a steamer for an overnight voyage to New York City. Five days later, Poe was found delirious on a Baltimore street and died soon thereafter. What transpired over those missing days has remained forever a mystery...until now. This imaginative play, utilizing Poe's macabre stories and poems, ponders what might have happened to him on the dreary nightmare voyage at the end of his life. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  3. Bloody Jack

    Bloody Jack

    By Tim Kelly

    Product Code: BJ5000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • College | Community
    • 4m., 4w.

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    • 120 min.
    In the late 1800's, Jack the Ripper has murdered seven women in London. Dr. Thaddeus Sergeant is obsessed with solving these murders and looks at everyone visiting him as a suspect. Learn More
    $8.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $65/perf

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  4. The Potman Spoke Sooth

    The Potman Spoke Sooth

    By David Fulk.

    Product Code: P41000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College
    • 6m., 2w. (1 voice.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 35 min.
    Agatha Christie is spoofed hilariously as a respectable murder mystery turns into a farcical game of illusion and reality. Detective Sergeant Gallagher informs Colonel Winthrop Wiggins and his wife that a notorious "Peanut Murderer" is on the loose. Laughs abound as they engage in a zany intrigue of murders, accusations and arrests. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  5. The Summer People

    The Summer People

    Adapted by Brainerd Duffield. Based on the story by Shirley Jackson.

    Product Code: S56000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 4m., 3w.

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    • 40 min.
    This macabre tale makes use of the rural New England setting and the cryptic, taciturn inhabitants of that area. Its two principal characters are kindly city people who have been visiting their same cottage by an isolated lake for several decades. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  6. The Death and Life of Larry Benson

    The Death and Life of Larry Benson

    By Reginald Rose.

    Product Code: D12000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 8w.

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    • 75 min.
    The whole town is excited about Larry Benson's homecoming. More than that, they're astonished because Larry was reported missing in action on a distant battlefield more than three years ago. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Episode on an Autumn Evening

    Episode on an Autumn Evening

    By Friedrich Durrenmatt.

    Product Code: E16000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 4m., 2w.
    • 40 min.
    An amateur detective visits a novelist. He's noticed that the 21 murder mysteries the novelist is famed for just happen to coincide with 21 unsolved actual murders—and the novelist just happened to be in the vicinity at the time of each murder. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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