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Product Code: AK6000
This collection includes six winners of the 2013-2014 AACT NewPlayFest cycle.
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Product Code: BL7000
Approx. Run Time: 105 min.
Following the death of his father, 15-year-old Daniel is forced to move to unfamiliar Flint, Michigan. After a violent outburst at school, Daniel's social worker suggests he spend a week working with her father who is an urban gardener of several abandoned lots in the middle of the city. A week soon turns into a few months, and, as the two men spend the summer tending the gardens, they begin to plant some much-needed hope in a neighborhood plagued by blight and help each other heal some old wounds.
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Product Code: TU6000
Approx. Run Time: 80 min.
Four stories from Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven and The Black Cat are told in the form of a staged radio drama, complete with sound effects and music. The prisoners of Leverett Street Jail, Death Warrant Division, await their fates as three of the doomed souls tell their stories, and we enter the mind of a fourth.
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Product Code: S1X000
Approx. Run Time: 70 min.
When young Anahuac's family meets the newly arrived Cortes, they believe he is the Sun Serpent come to usher in a new, better world. But while Cortes promised a world of peace and plenty, his soldiers engage in a ruthless search for gold. As his certainties begin to crumble, Anahuac must navigate the familiar (Aztec prophecies, sky dancers, jungles) and the frightening but intriguing possibilities of the new (Spanish horses, guitars, ships).
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Product Code: S1W000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
The Doctors Wellington have arrived to sell their amazing strength elixir to the population. The Doctors tell the audience about they met the gater wrasslin' Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett, keelboating legend Annie Christmas and bronco-busting cowgirl Slue-Foot Sue in the search for ingredients to make the elixir. Using ingredients from each of these three heroines' stories, the doctors create an elixir so you, too, can be as strong as these tall tale legends!
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Product Code: K44000
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.
This is the story of what happened in the hotel room next to the hotel room where Ann was whisked out of the bed and into the Manhattan night by King Kong. There's always a backstory. There are also mistaken identities, pies in the face, deceit, underhandedness and even a couple of romances. And every moment is meticulously coordinated with the events depicted in the 1933 movie.
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Product Code: WG6000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
Set deep in the Tombigbee swamp, this classic tale of a very young boy with a very big fear is brought to new and vibrant life in this musical version. The story centers around a fatherless young boy, his conjure-woman mother, his faithful dog and the Hairy Man who haunts Wiley's days and dreams. Wiley sets forth alone to face his fears and to conquer his own lack of self-confidence.
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Product Code: ID9000
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.
A collection of four short comedies about the modern world.
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Product Code: S1Y000
Approx. Run Time: 50 min.
Six-year-old Cory doesn't want to live with her grumpy grandma she barely knows. Grandmother Autumn doesn't much like the idea, either. As Cory and Grandmother Autumn work through the adjustments of their new family structure, a stray dog appears on the doorstep. It's love at first sight for Cory and positively the last straw for Grandmother Autumn. This delightfully surprising story is filled with humor and heart, and reminds us that love makes almost anything possible, even in hard times.
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Product Code: PL5000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
Blending fiction with historical fact, this moving adaptation takes place in 1860s Imperial Russia where czars were required by law to marry women of royal Russian blood. The consequence for not following the law was losing the throne. After his father's death, Alexi is next in line for the throne, but experiences the jarring contrast between making laws and living by them.
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