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The Happy Prince: A Radio Play

The Happy Prince: A Radio Play

By Andrew J. Fenady and Duke Fenady. Based on Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince.

Product Code: HG1000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 7m., 6w., doubling or extras possible.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

The statue of a bejeweled happy prince overlooks a once shining city whose residents are despondent and many are leaving. The prince, once a selfish man, now turned to stone, implores a migrating swallow to be his messenger. The residents decide to stay and help make it, once again, a shining city on the hill. The prince and the little swallow pay the ultimate price for their goodness, but they receive, in return, a heavenly reward.

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First Person Shooter

First Person Shooter

By Don Zolidis.

Product Code: FE8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5 to 10m., 4 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

After a horrific school shooting, a community is left to pick up the pieces. The only friend of the shooter, Tad, who managed to stop the killer early in the rampage, blames himself. Tortured and guilty, Tad is forced to examine his life and his relationship with his best friend—and where it went wrong. Could he have stopped it before it happened? Could he have talked his friend out of it? This play is a difficult and complex look at emotional abuse, bullying and the tragedy of being an outcast.

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Cheaters

Cheaters

By Don Zolidis.

Product Code: CP6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 18 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Someone cheated on the test. And if the cheater doesn't confess, the entire class will fail. Now the entire class is forced to play detective and discover the cheater before it's too late. With the pressure on, the class fragments into warring factions with each student trying to figure out the mystery. But with each revelation of cheating, the fissures grow wider, and the simple act of trying to discover the truth might rip the entire class apart.

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The Firecracker Incident

The Firecracker Incident

By Don Zolidis.

Product Code: FE9000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 4 to 10m., 5 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Fourteen-year-old Joe's parents are pretty tough. First, they moved his bedroom into his little sister's closet. Then they took away his door. And then, after he just "happened" to tie one of her Barbie dolls to black cat firecrackers and exploded them in the backyard, they grounded him for the entire summer. But when his only friend breaks him out in the middle of the night, he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, which may mean the difference between life and death.

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The New Margo

The New Margo

By Stephen Gregg.

Product Code: N84000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

After her friend disappears days before their freshman year of college and an imposter shows up claiming to be her, Delta tries to convince their friends of the switch. She knows that something terrible has happened to the real Margo, and she desperately needs to outsmart the new Margo in order to keep the same thing from happening to her.

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Save Our Scoops! or … Ice Cream S.O.S.

Save Our Scoops! or … Ice Cream S.O.S.

By Patty Carver.

Product Code: S1M000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 6m., 8w., plus extras as desired.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

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The Excuser

The Excuser

By Werner Trieschmann.

Product Code: E62000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 15 to 20 roles, either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

This play is about a reality show led by billionaire (millionaire?) Clump, who has good hair, and in which a mixed bag of contestants compete in a storage room--no, boardroom-- and are sent home with the trademark, "That's no excuse!"

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Interrupting Vanessa

Interrupting Vanessa

By Colleen Neuman.

Product Code: ID4000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Vanessa uses her beloved collection of stuff to create inventions and make up stories. She gets carried away by her imagination and has imagined her father back to life after he died last year. In the end, Vanessa makes a new friend and a statement of truth: her dad died last year. Realizing she is never really alone, she is able to let her dad go.

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Selkie

Selkie

By Laurie Brooks.

Product Code: SW7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 3m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In Scotland, selkies transform into lasses on Midsummer's Eve and dance on the beach. This play chronicles the story of a 16-year-old who discovers a pelt that unlocks the mystery foretold.

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Aunt Leaf

Aunt Leaf

By Barbara Wiechmann.

Product Code: AF7000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 3 actors, gender flexible. Expansion possible.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

It is 1910. An 11-year-old girl is sent into the woods by her widowed great-aunt to look for the ghost of her dead husband. The girl brings back made-up stories to cheer up the old woman and soon comes to believe her own stories are true. The shared adventure, both dangerous and hopeful, serves as a dual passage for the child into adolescence and the old woman into a more peaceful death.

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