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Comedy
Short, 50-60 minutes
8 females, 5 males, 3 either (16 actors possible: 5-15 females, 1-11 males)
$40.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Five middle schoolers take on overzealous parents, crazy coaches, and
nostalgic relatives as they prepare for the annual spelling bee in this insightful comedy for young actors. With contestants that range from an unflappable cheerleader who cheers all her words to the anxiety-prone daughter of a movie star, spelling the words correctly may be the least of these kids' worries. This play wonderfully illustrates the pressure that kids feel to compete, and the family support that makes it all bearable.
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
5 females, 4 males, 11 either
(12-40 actors possible: 3-25 females, 3-25 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
When hunky star basketball player Cory and gorgeous smart girl Alejandra are chosen to star in Miss Farkus' winter musical, their story seems suspiciously similar to a certain popular film...and one lawyer won't stand for it. But a potential lawsuit is the least of the cast's problems: money is running out, and the depressing script doesn't seem likely to generate sales. Luckily, an Ancient Mayan exchange student has written a blockbuster musical disaster -- and it's guaranteed to be the most volcanic, destructive, and lucrative musical any high school has ever seen.
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Drama
Short, 30-40 minutes
8 females, 8 males, 3 either (16-25 actors possible: 6-11 females, 8-15 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Saundra is acting very strangely -- she wears her prom dress to school, stands up to a tyrannical teacher, hugs her younger brother, and even tries to join the boys' wrestling team. In a series of monologues,
Saundra's friends and family open up about how her odd behavior has affected them, with reactions ranging from bafflement to anger, frustration to admiration. It's only after Saundra's sudden death that her motives are revealed, and everyone is left to ponder their own rare condition.
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Winning Whiners
by McKenna Bovey, Alan Haehnel, Noah Lowenthal and Vanessa Mae |
 
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Comedy
Short, 40-50 minutes
2 males, 21 either (23 actors possible: 0-21 females, 2-23 males)
$40.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Four high school teams are pitted against each other in the ultimate competition: the Unified Regional All American Gripe Championships. The best whiners from across the country face off to see who can grumble with the most style and vigor, whether lamenting the perkiness of morning radio DJs or the perils of a snoring bunk mate at summer camp. With the reigning champs scoring poorly and the contest announcers holding a bickering match of their own, the outcome is anyone's guess. A lively send-up of high school debate and our culture of complaining.
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| Glory Days by Nick Blaemire book by James Gardiner |
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Rock Musical
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
4 males
$8.99 per book
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A year after graduating high school, four best friends reconnect on their old school's football field. Will has called the boys together with a mission: to hack into the sprinkler system so that it goes off when the jocks who bullied them in high school take the field for a charity game. But as the guys wait for instructions on how to break into the system, they quickly realize how dramatically their lives have grown apart. With a soaring pop-rock score, Glory Days is a poignant and witty coming-of-age story about friends searching for understanding and validation as they face the consequences of growing up.
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| "...swiftly, tunefully and yes, authentically latches onto the rhythms of late adolescence and plays them back to us as the music of wrenching transitions... It is a show that reminds us that even in comfortable suburbs, you can't really go home again." |
| --Peter Marks, The Washington Post |
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Parody
Full-length, 60-70 minutes
7 females, 3 males, 20 either (20-50 actors possible: 7-40 females, 3-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Brella Wann and her sister Pookie have just started at Tepes High where the student body is a little...different. In fact, every other student is, you guessed it, a vampire. Can the girls survive, surrounded by classmates out for their blood? Will Brella find true love with handsome, brooding vampire Hector Sullen, or will she fall for Fracus, the star basketball player for Werewolf Vo-Tech? This wild send-up of the romantic vampire genre will please everyone, no matter what team you're on.
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 85-95 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Siblings Ed and Adele inherit an enormous aviary that their late father built for his deceased wife, whose soul, he believed, had transformed into the body of a wren. The grown children are faced with the dilemma of what to do with the crumbling structure -- sister-in-law Jane wants to build tidy new houses; friend Olivia wants to build The Church of the Fifth Day honoring birds and the Fifth Day of creation; Ed wants to let the building fall to the ground. Folded into this debate are issues of religious conviction, fear of commitment, the way Russian ballet resembles a hockey game, and the courtship of Ed by Tom, a gay professional hockey player.
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| "A rare discovery in a new play -- an intricately constructed comedy about love and grief that is incredibly funny, surprisingly touching and soaring with joyful humanity... The play's skylarking structure combined with Bock's haunting substance makes this a not-to-be-missed theatrical triumph..." |
| --AJ Esta, Back Stage |
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Comedy
Short, 20-40 minutes
4 females, 8 males, 5 either
(10-25 actors possible: 3-15 females, 2-10 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Romeo and Juliet at Verona High updates Shakespeare's tragedy to a modern-day high school. Romeo is the captain of the football team and Juliet is the president of the Chess Club. Can the rival teams resolve their brutal differences? Who will triumph at the grudge chess match? At the end of the play, the audience votes on which ending they would like to see: the comic or the tragic version.
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Drama
Short, 35-45 minutes
11 either (11 actors possible: 0-11 females, 0-11 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A group of students gather in a mysterious location, each carrying a personal artifact to present as an offering to an ominous voice. As each person presents their object, from a sincere reminder of a deceased sister to a fake story about a magical conch shell, it quickly becomes apparent that there is no rhyme or reason behind the selection process. How will these students cope in this situation where they don't know what acceptance will mean or how they can achieve it?
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
At some point in their past, the Monroe children noticed that their grandmother only ever tells five anecdotes. Since there are, conveniently, five Monroe children, they've made an annual game out of drawing the stories from her. When a bet raises the stakes of the game, this already twisted pastime gets downright nasty. But it may be that Grandma isn't quite the unwitting mark she appears to be...
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Parody
Short, 10-15 minutes
2 either (2 actors possible: 0-2 females, 0-2 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Comedies: Volume 5.
An adaptation of the classic vaudeville routine made popular by Abbot and Costello -- in iambic pentameter.
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Comedy
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
8 females, 3 males (11-16 actors possible: 8-10 females, 3-6 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
The pressure is on for the down-and-out Saint Agnes girls' volleyball team to defeat their biggest rival and to save their coach's job. But with a limited number of players, a string of losses, an awkward confrontation with an angry parent, and two of the girls about to come to blows over a boy, things are looking rather grim. As their coach confronts his own nagging case of "loseritis," the girls learn to work together, hatching a plan to turn their season around and learning to conquer any challenge thrown their way, on or off the court. Lively and heartfelt, Volleygirls captures the spirit and passion of everything you love about team sports.
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| "Don't miss Volleygirls!" |
| --The San Francisco Chronicle |
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Comedy
Short, 40-45 minutes
9 females, 2 males, 2 either (11-13 actors possible: 5-13 females, 4-12 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
High school sophomore Sandra Malcher is called into her guidance office where her parents, teacher, and boyfriend act out scenarios in which she failed herself -- quitting soccer, failing a Shakespeare assignment, resisting intimacy, and breaking curfew. Each person insists on bringing in another Sandra "option" with them -- a girl that looks like Sandra and replays the scene behaving perfectly. Enter the CEO of NYE (New You Enterprises), who informs Sandra that her loved ones don't want to change her; they want to replace her completely. A dark, comic exploration of teenage identity and perfection itself.
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Serio-comedy for young audiences
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 2 males, 1 either (4-6 actors possible: 1-4 females, 2-5 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 9.
Chester sets out to paint the world purple when he realizes it's the only color his blind grandfather can see.
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Weird Sisters by James Venhaus
inspired by William Shakespeare's Macbeth |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
5 females, 7 males (12-15 actors possible: 5-7 females, 7-8 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Three social outcasts decide to stoke the ambitions of the star football player, Mac, and his über-popular girlfriend to see how far they will go to make sure Mac is made captain of the football team. Events unfold just as these students are assigned to read Macbeth and they soon become aware that their lives have an eerie resemblance to the classic play. But, for the three weird sisters, is it too late to stop the events they have set in motion, or will their plan take on a life of its own and result in tragedy?
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
13 females, 7 males (20-22 actors possible: exactly 13 females, 7-9 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Prom goes from time-honored tradition to all-out brawl in a fast-paced event where it's a race between the guys and girls to find the perfect date. Both teams have twenty-four hours and plenty of obstacles from a hot dog eating competition to backstabbing friends, from overly picky contestants to dueling coaches. Will matches be made in time for the big dance? A hilarious and, yes, even romantic take on a high school rite of passage.
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Comedy
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
8 females, 5 males, 4 either
(9-50 actors possible: 5-25 females, 4-25 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Media darling Oliver Twist has gone from a lowly orphan to an anxiety-ridden corporate spokesperson, pitching everything from juicers to cereal and tofu by reenacting his days in the workhouse and subsequent adventures. But Oliver's monopoly on the inspirational rags-to-riches story is threatened when Tiny Tim throws aside his crutches and decides to run the marathon. Tiny Tim has the chance to inspire millions, but with a homicidal trio of fairytale princesses, scheming Corporate Mommy and Daddy, and meddling friends and family, Tiny Tim may not make it to the starting line.
(This play may also be performed under the title Run Like the Dickens.)
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| "A non-stop stampede of satire, comic send-up and an underlying wry look at our modern 'values', grounded as they are in 15 minutes of carefully manipulated fame." |
| --- Brian Byrne, A Kilcullen Diary (Kilcullen, Ireland) |
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Comedy
Short, 40-55 minutes
6 females, 8 males, 20 either
(25-40 actors possible: 0-40 females, 0-40 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In this Seuss-esque send-up of the college application process, written entirely in verse, young Greenies from the town of Platterville must vie for the privilege of attending one of the four most prestigious planets. When the pompous Choosers descend on their town, demanding endless tests and qualifications, the Greenies and their parents will stop at nothing to get an acceptance...
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Comedy
Short, 40-50 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
It's a hot day for three idiots stuck on the Dallas-bound Greyhound bus. Walton wants to be a Cowboy, Nella wants a cowboy, and Stymie's on the run from Stymie -- and just might outrun him. At the end of the road comes sublimity, companionship, and forgiveness, at last.
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 9.
After decades of dominating the Milwaukee Bowling League, monsters may have finally met their match in some recent interplanetary visitors. It's up to monster Hubbard Grabowski to defend his title against the slimy alien Nelson. Can he do it? Or has he lost his monster nerve?
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