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Whoosh!

By Aditi Ganesh and Suzan Zeder.

Product Code: WK8000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School

Cast Size: 1w., 4 to 11 any gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 12 min.

11-year-old Terra is having a weird summer. First, COVID strikes, leaving everyone quarantined at home, then she gets sucked into her computer and stuck in Google Earth! At least there’s a way home, but to do so, Terra must find three magical ingredients to save the planet and bring them back to the place where the earth meets the sky. Time is running out, for Terra and for the Earth!

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I Have a Story: Plays From an Extraordinary Year

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Come Rain or Come Shine

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: CT9000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Frank and Dorothy trace their joys, sorrows and perpetual misconnection through 50 years of selected notes and letters. From their college graduation in 1950 until their 50th class reunion in 2000, they maintained a friendship despite everything and finally found themselves face to face and free to be together at last.

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Hogmanay

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: HJ2000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m., 4w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

As Ben and Molly prepare to celebrate Scottish New Year alone in their Oak Park home, an ice storm causes an automobile accident outside, and Molly and Ben end up as impromptu hosts to the accident victim Wallace, their next-door neighbor Sharon, their daughter Lizzy, and Wallace’s daughter Amy. Both the older and younger characters are forced to face the issues brought on by aging, which they muddle through with humor. Despite their regrets from the past and fears for the future, love endures.

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Layla the Body Washer

By Nicholas A. Patricca.

Product Code: LP1000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 2w., up to 1 any gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Layla the Body Washer focuses on the effort to maintain one’s humanity in spite of the daily destruction of all that is human. Aliya, who has dedicated her life to preparing the dead for a dignified burial, rescues young Layla from a collapsed building and prepares her to take on the sacred task of respecting and learning from the dead.

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Layla the Body Washer and Incident at Jerusalem

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Incident at Jerusalem

By Nicholas A. Patricca.

Product Code: IG5000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 2m.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Richard the Lionheart is preoccupied with the siege of Jerusalem. His forces are ravaged by disease and dissension and are in turn besieged by the forces of Saladin. Saladin, in disguise, visits Richard to negotiate a path forward. They engage in a verbal and physical joust to test each other’s strength, courage and resolve. In this intimately personal contest, they recognize in each other a common love for truth and the enduring value of friendship that transcends cultures, borders and hate.

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Recalculating

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: RF2000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1 to 2m., 3 to 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Financially strained art dealers Libby and Beth take an automobile ride across a big city to a rendezvous during which they appear engaged in the illegal sale of stolen fossils. Their trip is comically punctuated by the unctuous female voice of the GPS unit on the dashboard, which begins to make cryptic remarks that seem less concerned with geography and more with the course of Libby and Beth's lives, ultimately leading them to make a significant decision.

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Steering Into the Skid

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: S4W000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

In 12 short scenes from New Year’s Day to New Year’s Eve, Amanda and Tim, both in their 60s, face the changes wrought by advancing age and the gradual realization of Tim’s advancing dementia, forcing each character to adjust to new demands on their imperfect but loving marriage.

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Stuck in the Middle With You

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: S4V000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

Sheltering in place at their home in a small city, John and Allie contend with the difficulties—serious and comic—of isolation caused by a dangerous virus, as well as facing intimations of their own mortality and middle-class privilege.

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Continuum of Care

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: CT8000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Retirees Louise, a former middle-school principal, and Albert, a former university professor, cope with the growing challenges of aging and the well-meaning efforts of their daughter Eleanor, an attorney, to have them move out of their home and opt for residence in an assisted living community.

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