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The Magic Well

The Magic Well

By Herman Ammann.

Product Code: ML3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA | Touring Group
Cast Size: 4 to 8m., 6 to 10w.

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Here is another delicious mixture of fairyland fantasy and modern social realism. King Cole is un-merry because he has three daughters of marriageable age—and no prospective sons-in-law to take them off his hands. A professional hunter comes to rid the kingdom of a dragon, but the local environmentalist thinks dragons should be protected as an endangered species. There's a well with magic powers and a frog. An Old Hag is troubled with inflation—the price of lizard tongues has gone out of sight! There is humor in the villagers' reactions to all this.

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The Invisible Dragon

The Invisible Dragon

By Patricia Clapp.

Product Code: I27000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College Theatre | TYA
Cast Size: 3m., 2w. (1 storyteller, extras.)

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Everyone was happy - except the princess. She wasn't happy because all she could think about was herself. A visiting prince isn't happy either because he wants is to slay a dragon and there just aren't any around.

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Esther the Queen

Esther the Queen

Adapted by Orlin Corey. From the King James English translation Bible.

Product Code: E68000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Praise Group
Cast Size: 50 roles which may be performed by as few as 17 (11m., 6w.) actors.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

The Israelites, already scattered in defeat by the Persians, again facing the threat of annihilation. Esther, a secret Jewess, confronts the necessity to act to save her people.

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The Cop and the Anthem

The Cop and the Anthem

Dramatized by Marc Bucci. From the story by O. Henry.

Product Code: C33000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 8w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

This unexpected comedy is about a man who is having an unusual problem with the law—he can't get himself arrested! Each year when winter starts, Lemuel T. Thwackbusher, a resident of New York's park benches, arranges a trip to his favorite winter resort, the local prison. But this year, no matter what he does, it just won't work! Lemuel commits his humorous misdemeanors and then pleads in the name of law and order that he should be locked up. It's no use. The play ends with the sort of surprise for which O. Henry is famous.

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Hamlet

Hamlet

By William Shakespeare. Adapted by Albert Pia.

Product Code: H11000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 15m., 4w. (plus extras.)

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Brilliantly cut by director Albert Pia, who is famous for his highly successful high school presentations of Shakespeare, this 45-minute arrangement is rich in helpful stage directions and production notes.

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Box for One

Box for One

By Peter Brook.

Product Code: B28000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 2m., with possible extras.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

The "box for one" is a lonely outdoor telephone booth. A young man goes into the booth, dials a number and asks if there's a message for him. As he starts to leave, the phone rings. He speaks to a girl who is calling her boyfriend, but obviously she's reached a wrong number. The young man starts to believe that someone is out to get him. He calls the girl who spoke to him before asking for help, but the girl thinks this is just a joke. The play delivers its promised climax and it's tremendous!

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Ladies of the Tower

Ladies of the Tower

By Ruth Perry and Tim Kelly.

Product Code: L11000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 9w.

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Two cleaning women come to scrub down a forgotten room in the Tower of London and are visited by the spirits of the ladies who met death inside the dark walls.

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The Haunted Auditorium

The Haunted Auditorium

By Rosemary Owens.

Product Code: H12000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 3m., 3w.

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

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By the Waters of Babylon

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

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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