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- $7.95 – $75.00
Group S.O.S. Male
- 95 Minutes
- 6 Males
Classroom Use, Mental Health Issues, Monologue, sexual abuse, Colleges, Community, Depression, High School, Minimal Set, School Touring, Self-esteem, Simple Set, Trust
This is the male version of a partner play also titled Group S.O.S. The S.O.S. stands for Survivors of Sexual Abuse. There is a female version and a script which includes both male and female versions. The separate versions are full-length plays in two acts, running about 95 minutes each. In Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, survivors of sexual abuse confront each other’s strengths and weaknesses in the setting of group therapy sessions. Each character has his own story and his own secrets which lead to a redemptive past.
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Group S.O.S. Female Version
- 95 Minutes
- 6 Females
Abuse, Classroom Use, Mental Health Issues, Monologue, sexual abuse, Community, Depression, High School, School Touring, Self-esteem, Simple Set, Small Cast, Teens
This is the female version of GROUP S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, the S.O.S stands for Survivors Of Sexual abuse. In this 2-act, 95-minute play, female survivors both confront and comfort one another in a therapy as they begin their processes of healing. Appropriate for a teen or adult audience, previous productions of these plays have led to audience members seeking help as they begin to recognize themselves among the characters.
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Between Trains
- 70 minutes
- 5 Male, 3 Female, Doubling Possible Cast: 7 - 14
Colleges, Community, Edgy Play, Large Cast
In this strangely magical play with songs, a woman wakes up in a train station someplace between Maybe and Nowhere. Everyone she meets is waiting for something or going somewhere, but she’s just looking for a way out. The play explores how we get stuck and how we get unstuck – and what can happen in those crucial moments when how we respond makes all the difference . . .
Great for site-specific theaters or professional theaters, as well as college and university venues.
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Sniper
- 90 Minutes
- 8 Males; 2 Females; Doubling Possible
Colleges, Community, Doubling Possible, Drama, Edgy Play
Award-winning full-length drama for 8-10 actors, SNIPER is very loosely based upon the nation’s first school shooting in 1975. The drama explores the mind and life of seventeen year old Anthony Vaccaro, who fatally shoots 9 citizens of a small town in upstate New York. Moving back and forth in time, Vaccaro searches his own past and remembers….
Great for high school, college, and community theater and discussion groups.
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An Evening With Joyce’s Women
- 100 minutes
- 3 Males 4 Females Max 12 Min 4
Community, Flexible Casting, Fundraiser, High School, Middle School
A trilogy of one-act plays, The Boarding House, Eveline, and The Dead
Based on Dubliners by James Joyce; adapted for the stage to allow us to enter the lives of three Dublin women. Dublin society of the first decade of the 20th Century comes to life through the frustrations, fantasies, and follies of Irish women who are also victims and victimizers of their mates.
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Frankenstein… or The Modern Prometheus
- 120 Minutes
- 7 Males 3 Females Max 13 Min 10 (Doubling Possible)
Drama, Simple Props, Simple Set
A full-length adaptation of Frankenstein. True to the Mary Shelley original, except for a comic servant role, the play depicts the monster Creature with as much horror and sympathy as the original. Excellent for Halloween! Earlier versions of this play by Kathleen McBlair have been performed in school and community theaters since 1980. Audiences love it and scream heartily every time the Creature arrives in the window.
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She’ll Find Her Way Home
- 100 minutes
- 2 Males, 3 Females, Min/Max 5
Community, High School, Reader's Theater
A full-length, African-American, post-Civil War drama. The only child of a deceased well-heeled Mississippi slaveholder. Martha Robb views her coming of age full of the adolescent longings and unending horizons promised by the victorious Union Army. and her quadroon complexion. She and her companion, Thomas, could forge different lives, lives absent of the old barriers … if they could only get past her mother.
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Snapshots
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
Competitions, Simple Props, Simple Set
Snapshots is a three-actor touching comedy that captures the high and low points of a 30-year marriage. Maggie ages from 27 to 60’s and Sy, her husband, ages 32 to 60’s. The Man represents various pivotal figures in their lives. Great for competitions, high schools, community theaters. Simple set: 3 cubes and a coat rack.
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Robert Arthur’s Eastern Shore
Musical Drama, Poetic Drama, Colleges, Community, High School, Large Cast, Middle School, Professional
ROBERT ARTHUR’S EASTERN SHORE by Robert P. Arthur, twice nominated for Virginia’s Poet Laureate: The book includes 4 one-act plays, a selection of his award-winning poems, and “Hymn to the Chesapeake,” a play with music. The culture of the Eastern Shore watermen and waterwomen has long been threatened by the erosion of winds off the Chesapeake Bay and a dwindling supply of crabs and “ersters” to be harvested. These poems and plays celebrate that life and allow us, to share the triumph and the pain of finding one’s livelihood and reason for being in an environment that is both beautiful and unforgiving.
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Charming Princes and Wicked Queens
Collection
Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White Script Collection
Adaptations, by Mickey Coburn, of three popular fairytales, have been produced, to great acclaim, in children’s theaters, as well as classrooms. These adaptations have unique characters among their more familiar companions to give more casting options and more roles. First produced, then toured, by the Boston Children’s Theatre, directed by Mickey Coburn.
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Nat’s Last Struggle
- 60 Minutes
- 1 Male, Min/Max 1
Simple Set
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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Midsummer Night’s Dream for Youth
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Comedy, Community, Competitions, High School, Middle School, Minimal Set, School Touring, Simple Set, Small Cast, Teens, Touring
In this one-act adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, four players in a traveling clown troupe wake up one morning to discover that they have been abandoned by the other members of the company. That evening they are required to perform A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM before the local Squire and they have to madly re-invent the play so that it can be done with four clowns.
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Macbeth for Youth
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Flexible Casting, Highly Theatrical, Interactive, Large Puppets, Minimal Set, Participatory, Touring
A thrilling one-act adaptation for children of Shakespeare’s harrowing story of the ambitious Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Greed and ambition are emphasized. The role of the Porter is expanded to give more comic relief. The Porter and the Witches serve as intermediaries with the play and the audience. Makes the story fully accessible to a younger audience.
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I Am the Brother of Dragons – Script
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Classroom Use, Dramedy, Drug Abuse, Mental Health Issues, Choices, Comedy, Community, Competitions, Depression, Drama, High School, Middle School
In this insightful drama by Gillette Elvgren, a family struggles to cope with drug addiction. Highly theatrical, the actors wear the masks that represent the many disguises they all assume in the dance of addiction.
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Phaedra
- 90 Minutes
- 4 Males 4 Females Max 15+ Min 9
Drama, Simple Props, Simple Set
A full-length, poetic drama resurrects the love, lust, and retribution of the original Greek legend in modern surroundings. A stepmother’s insatiable desire for her husband’s son destroys a family. Set in a beach house with the sound of drumming waves and ghostly figures of fishwives in the background, this verse play brings the ancient story back to life.
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Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home
- 50 - 60 minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max/Min 2
Simple Set, Staging Design Potential
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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