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Hecuba

By Euripides. Translated and adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Product Code: H69000

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Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 4m., 2w. (chorus.)

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

After the fall of Troy, Queen Hecuba has lost everything. Enslaved by the victorious Greeks, she endures unimaginable suffering, which drives her from despair to ruthless revenge. Timberlake Wertenbaker's adaptation of Euripides' tragedy is a timeless story of war's devastating cost.

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The Death of the Black Jesus

By David Barr.

Product Code: D68000

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

Cast Size: 5m., 3w. (w/ doubling.)

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Twenty-five years after the shooting death of Bobby Wright, founder of the Black Jesus Party, three members of the party are assembled for a TV talk show. The show gets great publicity and sets into action the host's exploitative plan to get back into the big time by encouraging a fight between the trio and a loud white nationalist. "The explosive dialogue teaches students about the black radical movements of the ‘60s without pinpointing or presenting a group in a negative light." (The Kansas City Star)

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Just a Stage He's Going Through

By Pat Cook.

Product Code: J25000

One-act Play

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

Cast Size: 4m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

This theatrical fantasy involves Dwight, an average guy, who wakes up in the middle of the night with a horrible feeling that he's on stage somewhere, while the rest of the characters see the world as it is, and who eventually ends up on Freud's couch.

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Alicia in Wonder Tierra (or I Can't Eat Goat Head)

By Silvia Gonzalez S.

Product Code: A66000

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Cast Size: 4m., 4w., doubling.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, with a touch of The Wizard of Oz, this amazing one-act adventure of young Alicia takes her on a journey from a Mexican curio shop to an understanding of her national heritage.

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I Ain't Yo' Uncle: The New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom's Cabin

By Robert Alexander. From the stage adaptation by George Aiken. Of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Product Code: I54000

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Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 5m., 4w. (Multiracial cast. One or two extras optional.)

Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Old stereotypes get to meet their creator, as Uncle Tom, Topsy and Eliza put Harriet Beecher Stowe on trial for not only perpetuating negative stereotypes but also for failing to "get their story right."

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Alicia in Wonder Tierra (or I Can't Eat Goat Head)

By Silvia Gonzalez S.

Product Code: A65000

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Cast Size: 4m., 4w. (extras.)

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Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

Alicia enters a Mexican curio shop with her mother. When a simple stumble sends her reeling into a fantastical world, she encounters the sinister Elvira gang, who trap souls in pottery with the touch of a chicken claw. As she journeys through strange lands to find the Pottery Maker and uncover the truth about the trapped souls, Alicia navigates a vivid world of folklore and imagination that helps deepen her understanding of her national heritage.

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Southern Girls

By Sheri Bailey and Dura Temple.

Product Code: SB2000

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

Cast Size: 6w.

Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

This play follows three black women and three white women from childhood (circa 1952) through middle age. This bittersweet memory play reflects the changes in the lives of these women in the mirror of the changing South.

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The Stick Wife

By Darrah Cloud.

Product Code: SB1000

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Cast Size: 3m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

The wife of a Ku Klux Klan member in Birmingham, Alabama, informs on her husband to the FBI after his participation in the bombing of a black church that killed four little girls.

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O Pioneers!

Adapted from the novel by Willa Cather. Book and lyrics by Darrah Cloud. Music by Kim D. Sherman.

Product Code: O07000

Musical

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Cast Size: 6m., 2w. , 2 children, 8 singers (4m., 4w.) who also play small roles.

Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Based on the 1913 novel by Willa Cather about life on the prairie at the end of last century, this musical tells the story of Alexandra Bergson who takes charge of her father's Nebraska homestead after his death. Through harvest, drought, and poverty, she holds her farm and family of three brothers together until they are ready to stand on their own.

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