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By the Waters of Babylon

Based on the story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Adapted by Brainerd Duffield.

Product Code: B37000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 4m., 1w. (cast includes 1 boy, non-speaking role and variable chorus.)

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Set in the distant future, a young boy tries to rediscover our modern civilization.

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The Gondoliers

Adapted by I. E. Clark. Based on the operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Product Code: GC1000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre

Cast Size: 5m., 5w., extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Two Venetian gondoliers, Giuseppe and Marco Palmieri, marry two pretty maidens. And they live happily ever—whoa! This pleasant scene is suddenly interrupted when it is revealed that Giuseppe and Marco are not brothers after all ... one of them is the long-lost heir to the throne of Barataria. But no one except the prince's former nurse, who is now the wife of a pirate in a faraway land, knows whether Giuseppe or Marco is the king!

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The Trial of Tom Sawyer

Adapted by V. Glasgow Koste. From Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Product Code: TN2000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA

Cast Size: 18m., 8w., or 13 minimum (8m., 5w.) with doubling.

Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

This play dramatically focuses on the inner conflict of Tom during one long summer ago. In a warm season of ripening, the boy proves his manhood and the man relives his boyhood.

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Appleseed

By Ed Graczyk.

Product Code: AE7000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 7m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

This dramatic saga depicts the life and times of Johnny Appleseed. Through a series of flashbacks along his Midwest pilgrimage as he plants apple trees and love along the way.

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly

By Celeste Raspanti.

Product Code: I22000

Full-length Play

Cast Size: 4m., 7w., 4 children, extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

One of the survivors of Terezin concentration camp, Raja, wants to keep a promise she made to save the drawings and poems of the children of Terezin. Having lived through it all, she tells the true story of teaching when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give hope when there was little reason for hope, and creating a little world of laughter, flowers and butterflies behind the barbed wire. Butterflies became a symbol of defiance for the children, making it possible for them to live on and play happily while waiting to be transported.

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly

By Celeste Raspanti.

Product Code: I33000

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Recommended For: Middle School | High School

Cast Size: 2m., 2w., extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

This is a beautiful and moving one-act play based on the poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague.

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The Summer People

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

Product Code: S56000

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Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 4m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 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.

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Welcome to the Monkey House

By Christopher Sergel. Based on short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Product Code: W15000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre

Cast Size: 10m., 14w. (Flexible.)

Approx. Run Time: 110 min.

Vonnegut begins with a young man searching for companionship and identity through participation in amateur theatre. The final scene gets to the heart of what really concerns young people as a music teacher fights to salvage a rebellious young man, explaining to him how one might bring beauty into the world. "Love yourself," the teacher tells him, "and make your instrument sing about it."

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Brave New World

Adapted by David Rogers. From the classic novel by Aldous Huxley.

Product Code: B32000

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Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre

Cast Size: 19m., 13w. (extras, doubling.)

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Approx. Run Time: 130 min.

The play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal; where babies are not born but decanted from bottles; where human frustrations are eliminated by happiness drugs. Into this society comes John, a sensitive, human throwback.

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