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Dancing With Strangers

By Sandra Fenichel Asher.

Product Code: D59000

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Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 2 to 3m., 3 to 6w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

For each of the teenaged main characters in this trilogy of short plays, life is an intricate and often confusing dance—partners join in and depart for reasons that are not always clear, altering the rhythm and mood for better or worse.

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The Cricket on the Hearth

Adapted by Marian Jonson. Based on the Charles Dickens' tale.

Product Code: C75000

Full-length Play

Cast Size: 5m., 2w. (extras, dancers.)

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

To have a cricket on your hearth brings great good luck. But it does not appear true for Caleb, the old toymaker, and his blind daughter, Bertha. Enjoyable at any season and especially timely as a Christmas play.

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Cornbread and Beans

By Earl Reimer

Product Code: C56000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 15 min.

A set-in-his-ways widower and a free spirit are set up on a blind date by an online dating service.

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Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty-Minute Plays for Mature Actors

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Conversation at Night With a Despised Character

By Friedrich Durrenmatt.

Product Code: C32000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A man entertains a long awaited visitor, knowing he would come sooner or later but not knowing in what disguise he would appear. The visitor presents himself as the executioner for totalitarian state, but it is Death that speaks.

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Concerned Citizens

By Violet Gunter and Bob May

Product Code: C17000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 4w.

Approx. Run Time: 5 min.

Yolanda hasn't seen the neighbor in several days, and is afraid she may have died.

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Comedy Is a Serious Business

By Harry Ruskin.

Product Code: C30000

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This informative 100-page book deals with all facets of comedy, explained through examples of comedy in history, how to write a humorous work, rules of comedy, the language used in comedy, suggestions on becoming a comedian, what makes a joke funny and how to make "convertible Cadillac" money by writing or performing comedy.

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Class Act

By Michael Elkin.

Product Code: CA7000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A widow registers for everything from cooking to clowning at the local Y.

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Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

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Choices

By Many Young Playwrights.

Product Code: C81000

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Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 10 to 20 actors.

Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

This collection of monologues, scenes and 10-minute one-acts explores the decisions and realizations that today's adolescents and young adults make about themselves. Friendship, love, parents, alcoholism, the trials of growing up, and more.

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Cagebirds

By David Campton.

Product Code: C44000

One-act Play

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

Cast Size: 8w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Six women live in a locked room, each absorbed in her own petty interest and in placating the "Mistress" who takes care of them. Then a "Wild One" is thrust in among them. She talks of breaking out of the room to find freedom. She troubles the others who remain secure in their cage, and they all join against her in the shattering conclusion to this unforgettable play that offers eight actresses an unusual opportunity.

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