Blue Moon Plays Imprint

Scripts for plays published in the Blue Moon Plays Imprint are challenging plays for theaters with an edge. The scripts are about the lives of the underrepresented and ignored in society.

They include strange, provocative or controversial issues like school shootings, growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, drugs, black history, slavery, politics, political farce, demons, the occult, the irreverent, the weirdly wonderful.

Full of surprises these plays often challenge actors, directors, set designers with some aspect that’s way out of the ordinary.

Far from the Tree

Price range: $7.25 through $35.00

A father should be proud to witness his ambitious son strive to fulfill his career goals, except if the father is a narcissistic dad whose failures come to light by his son’s successes. In "Far from the Tree", a comedy short play within "Legacy of a Father" series by playwright Monique Franz, the main character has to overcome his father’s tactics of sabotage to stay focused on his future.

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Feathers in the Wind

$175.00

A whimsical musical that weaves together a collection of Jewish folktales about the wise fools of Chelm into a single fable. As Rabbi Itzik searches the world for his scattered congregation, we relive the rise and fall of his little village that proved time and again that "God loves the people of Chelm."

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Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave

Price range: $13.70 through $180.00

In Kentucky, caves were popular tourist attractions and a source of revenue. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Cave, He got trapped undergound for two weeks and a frantic media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts.

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Ghosts of Silver Beach Road

Price range: $13.70 through $75.00

A 3-character poem-play that reveals the first ten years of the life of an abused child struggling on the cusp of mental illness and successfully hiding it from his dysfunctional family.

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Humans Remain

Price range: $13.70 through $145.00

A well-meaning “foreigner” attempts to rescue the White Cliff Kinfolk – a mixed-race society isolated from civilization in the hills of New Jersey for over 200 years. Love. Death. History. Magic. Nature. Belief. All of these are played out on the stage. All but one character are mixed race, mainly African-American. One character is specified as African-American. The others are as diverse as desired. Highly theatrical staging possible.

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Hymn to the Chesapeake

Price range: $11.00 through $185.00

An award-winning, full-length play with music filled with the poetry of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Robert P. Arthur weaves fragments of conversations and traditional melodies to portray the love and heartbreak of its watermen and women--the love of the sea, a mother for a child, a man for a woman.

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Kings and Pawns

Price range: $9.97 through $50.00

Kings and Pawns is a comic 10-minute play based on the story of David and Bathsheba--a contemporary-sounding look at the spoils of love and war.

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Legacy of a Father

Price range: $14.70 through $110.00

"Legacy of a Father" is a collection of seven dramatic and comedy one-act plays inspired by real one-on-one, personal interviews conducted by the playwright, Monique Franz. The series addresses a fatherless theme and deals with absentee fathers and the absence of what a father traditionally provides.

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Library Wars

Price range: $13.70 through $135.00

School and public libraries, bastions of free access to information, are threatened. “Library Wars” begins with an ordinary setting: a local library board meeting. Everything’s routine until someone arrives with what might be a weapon, and new members propose banning books with race-oriented, gay, and transsexual themes and characters.

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Looking Glass Elegy

Price range: $13.97 through $78.00

Structured as a nonlinear narrative, a film location scout named George takes us on a trip through his past, reflecting on his adventures in the film business as well as past relationships, particularly with a dancer who he came to love and eventually lost. His attempt to come to terms with that loss drives the action of the story.

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Lost and Found

Price range: $13.70 through $145.00

In this one-act drama, seven teenagers laugh and cry as they tell their personal stories of shifting sexuality. Playing roles in each other's scenes, they confront growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. They must learn to exist in a world that continues to be perplexed and challenged by sexual differences.

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Moments of Madness

Price range: $13.70 through $110.00

A short play collection by Jack J. Berry consists mainly of short comedies. Berry loves to stand the world on its head. A comedy about attempted assassin John J. Hinkley? Travel from Old Testament to WWII in a matter of minutes? These short plays can be produced as an evening of theater or individually as introductions to meetings and events.

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Monsters

Price range: $11.97 through $90.00

Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas.

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N

Price range: $13.70 through $125.00

Adrienne Earle Pender gives us the influential and momentous "N" play, that dramatizes the struggle between playwright Eugene O’Neill and actor Charles Sidney Gilpin over the inclusion of the "N" word in the script for O’Neill’s first box office hit, The Emperor Jones. in 1920. The play was turned into a film "The Black Emperor of Broadway" , screened in 2020 to great acclaim.

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Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home

Price range: $11.97 through $50.00

This one-act, two character play opens during the pre-dawn hours of November 5, 1831. It is the day that Nat Turner, leader of a bloody slave rebellion, will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death. In the predawn hours before the trial a mysterious woman enters to purify the courtroom. Seven days later she is there by the hanging tree when Turner is executed and thrown into the darkness of death - where he fears he has been eternally abandoned.

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Nat’s Last Struggle

Price range: $11.97 through $45.00

A one-man play by P. A. Wray. Nat Turner confronts his conscience in the afterlife. Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an American slave who brought about the only direct, continuous slave rebellion (August 1831) in U. S. history. Some regard him as a monster, others as a hero in search of freedom. Which was he? Great for high school, college, community theater, and readers theater.

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