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Encounter

Product Code: E23000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

This experimental piece marks the first full play of this new, young playwright since her first monologues and scenes found in Glimpses. The work strongly focuses on the relationship of a young man and woman who shed their past and rediscover one another in an empty room. Designed as a literary jungle gym, this show encourages actors to find new dimensions and meanings within the lines. It is a play that can be performed anywhere with a wide range of possible actor/director interpretations.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

Postponing the Heat Death of the Universe

Product Code: P61000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

After losing a scholarship contest, Nick lies motionless in a dark room. Jackie, the scholarship winner, arrives to give him her condolences and the two exchange their views.

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Limbo

Product Code: L56000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

This powerful and moving play concerns an almost desperate struggle to communicate. An old man is locked in the garden of his memories, locked there because he can only speak in disjointed syllables.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $50.00/perf

A Moment in Time

Product Code: M66000

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

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A family in the midst of divorce has come to the emergency room of a hospital where the son, Kevin, is hovering between life and death after an automobile accident.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $50.00/perf

Rest Stop

Product Code: R38000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A family tries to negotiate the widening gulf between a father and daughter on a vacation, when a wistful stranger plunges the family into a nightmare that forces them to confront their shattering bonds.

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The Comedy of Errors

Adapted by Cecil Pickett from William Shakespeare.

Product Code: CM3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 10 to 15 actors.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

The play is about twins, both named Antipholus, who have twin servants, both named Dromio. After a shipwreck, the twins are separated and twenty years later they all arrive in the same city, with hilarious confusion.

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Alien Equation

Product Code: A45000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 6 boys., 6 girls, 1 adult.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Max (a modern day Einstein, bored with school, and with his mind on the cosmos) discovers there may be more adventure in math than meets the eye!

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The Girl Who Was Asked to Turn Blue

Product Code: G47000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: large, flexible.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Tracey Logan, a girl of 16, finds herself unexpectedly in a world where everyone is blue. Tracey learns that they evolved through a period of time that was similar to our society. She is told that she, too, must turn blue in order to fit into this blue society. She must decide whether to maintain her individuality and become an outcast or to turn blue and become accepted by the others.

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Monkey, Monkey: The Marvelous Adventures of the Magical Monkey King

Adapted by Charles Jones. From the novel Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en.

Product Code: MK2000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 6m., 3w., with doubling, or up to 18+ (7m., 2w., 9 either gender) extras optional.

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

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A Device Out of Time

Product Code: D44000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 3m.

Limited Streaming Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

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Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

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