fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life

Product Code: FE5000

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Jo is busy fending off suburban boredom, when her teacher assigns Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to her English class. She relates to the central character: forever the listener, definitively the outsider and perpetually misunderstood. When she is the victim of a gay bashing, those close to Jo question their own responsibility and find a voice for those persecuted simply for being different.

El Viaje de Beatriz (Beatriz's Journey)

Product Code: V42000

Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

When Beatriz storms into her room to escape yet another fight between her parents, she turns to Beatrizita, a doll made for her by her recently deceased abuela, for comfort. Beatrizita magically comes to life and sends Beatriz searching for her abuela in Dreamland with nothing but a blank map to guide her. Along the way, she discovers the regalitos (little gifts) of spirit that her abuela’s kindness instilled within her.

Charm

Product Code: CP2000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This is the story of an extraordinary woman: the brilliant, but forgotten, American writer and feminist, Margaret Fuller, who inspired The Scarlet Letter. Set in an imagined America of the 1840s, the play portrays her journey from a plain, bookish young woman suffering unrequited love for her handsome cousin to the confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau and the New-York Tribune's first female war correspondent.

A Child's Garden of Verses

Product Code: CN4000

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Approx. Run Time: 50 min.

This is a multi-sensory, highly interactive piece inspired by the classic book of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, which helps audiences grow a garden and their imaginations as they frolic in the leaves, feed a bird, sing in the rain, dance with the wind, build a boat and discover treasures, including the greatest of them all—friendship. This play is specifically devised for preschool children as young as 15 months old but can be enjoyed by children as old as those in first or second grades.

The Conflict

Product Code: CG9000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This play is based on true events occurring in the 1930s when federally funded road construction for Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway legally forced many families in those mountains from their homes. The Walton family and their eldest son, John Boy, are summoned by a Walton matriarch to help her fight forcible eviction. The Conflict is the story of family, courage, and hope in the face of losing what was so important to the Blue Ridge people of their time.