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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
7 females, 7 males, 21 either
(20-51 actors possible: 0-51 females, 0-51 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
For science teacher Douglas Kobekeaneski, there's nothing greater than "The Hour of Desperation," that magical hour before his immensely important, grade-devastating assignment is due. Each year, his students frantically scramble to come up with their method of escape -- and this year is no exception, as they trot out a litany of outrageous excuses, including the greatest of them all: My homework ate my dog.
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 25-35 minutes
1 female, 5 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Austin is a brilliant teenage astronomer who happens to have autism. Lily is his popular classmate who happens to have an interest in astronomy. When a chance encounter after school leads to a growing connection between them, Austin's imagination, intelligence, and constant struggles to connect with the world are revealed in the form of four characters representing his inner life. By turns funny and heartbreaking, The Other Room is a compelling and sensitive glimpse into a unique and misunderstood mind.
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Frankenstein, A New Musical
by Mark Baron book and lyrics by Jeffrey Jackson original story adaptation by Gary P. Cohen
from the novel by Mary Shelley |
 
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Musical
Full-length, 120-135 minutes
4 females, 7 males, 3 either
(9-35 actors possible: 4-16 females, 5-19 males)
$8.99 per book
Other prices can be calculated by clicking "More Info"
With earnest ballads and soaring ensemble numbers, this compelling new musical brings the suspense and romance of the classic tale to life in a uniquely faithful, yet thoroughly innovative adaptation of Mary Shelley's original novel. In his quest to discover the secret of life, Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, creates a human of his own design that turns out to instead be a horrifying beast. This is no "Hollywood monster," but a flesh-and-blood man who, while terrifying in appearance, grows to become articulate, cunning, and thirsting for revenge upon the creator who abandoned him. A tragic love story and exploration of humanity, Frankenstein, A New Musical breathes new life into the world-renowned story of man and creator pitted against one another in epic battle.
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| "...brings the classic story thrillingly to life." |
| --Julie Reed, Associated Press |
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Comedy
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
3 females, 3 males, 1 either
(6-11 actors possible: 3-5 females, 3-6 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Moll, a girl who invents things, wins the science fair with a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save noise as we know it. Accompanied by the last boy-virgin in the eleventh grade, Moll crosses chasms and rafts rivers into a world where sound is always more than what meets the ear. A quirky fable of innocence and experience, featuring live sound effects, mutinous onomatopoeia, and a host of woodsy temptations.
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| "Stuffed with whizbang sight and sonic gags, sci-fi tropes, fanciful language and self-referential pokes at its own loopiness, Kid-Simple is the work of a fertile, rambunctious imagination...Harrison is an exhilarating wordsmith." |
| --Misha Berson, Seattle Times |
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Science fiction thriller
Full-length, 100-120 minutes
3 females, 5 males (8-21 actors possible: 3-8 females, 4-14 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull "respectable" life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly compassionate Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll's middle-aged normalcy continues -- until Hyde's passions begin to turn up a body count. This intimate, easy-to-stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's science fiction classic features two haunting chorus characters, who speed along the action, play many supporting roles, and speak to Jekyll as the voices in his head, spurring him toward triumph and tragedy.
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-70 minutes
3 females, 10 males, 8 either
(13-35 actors possible: 3-14 females, 10-21 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
IT'S ALIVE! Albert Einstein's brain, that is. Sci-Fi geek and pizza delivery boy Otto must make the most important delivery of all time when the mad scientist Dr. Harvey Thomas gives Otto and his talking dog, Swamp Thing, the task of safely delivering Einstein's brain to a college in Berkeley, where it will be properly studied. Sounds easy, right? Save for a few hilarious distractions (a musical group of preserved body parts, a horde of zombies, and an evil, even madder scientist) it should be a piece of cake! Can Otto and his dog make it to their destination in relatively one piece? Pun intended.
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Comedy
Short, 30-35 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A man lands on a woman after trying to throw himself off a bridge in a botched suicide attempt. On the quiet riverbank, as he attends to her minor injury, he learns that she too was planning to end her life over a broken heart. An argument ensues over the relative seriousness of their respective losses, the nature of existence, and the harmful effects of the essays of biologist Stephen Jay Gould. Will this unexpected collision lead each of them back to the dark place where they started, or will they start anew?
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 9-12 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Comedies: Volume 4.
Middle schoolers Regina, Bradley, Tiffany, and Sam compete (somewhat viciously) for first place at their school Science Fair. Though everyone else's projects are flashier, from Sam's exploration of his mother's facelift to Tiffany's study of the effects of glitter consumption, Regina proudly finds within herself words to defend her project, which she did entirely herself.
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Comedy
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
1 female (1-5 actors possible: 1-5 females, 0-1 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Kiki, Marcee, Michelle, Jethro, and Gretchen present their high school science fair projects: a treatise on Social Darwinism, a failed potato clock, the effect of Girl Scout cookie sales tactics on the rural poor, the effect of violin music on broccoli plants, and the hazards of nuclear energy. Twelve years later at the high school reunion, Social Darwinist Kiki is the emcee, and the only one of the original group in attendance -- but we find out, through simultaneous scenes, what has become of her former classmates' lives. Science Fair presents us with five offbeat kids, up close, warts and all, and lets us catch a glimpse of their future trajectory, daring us to take notice where, in most cases, society didn't. The play can be performed with 1 actress, or 5 actresses, or 4 actresses and 1 actor.
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| "Playwright Jeanmarie Williams examines the vagaries of high school in a very funny one-person show... The final scene of lonely and unloved Marcee at her lowest draws titters, but is also the play's most disconcerting moment." |
| --Martin Hernandez, LA Weekly |
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Drama
Short, 25-35 minutes
5 females, 3 males, 3 either (7-14 actors possible: 4-8 females, 3-6 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
One hundred years from now humans are living in sealed domes, where everything from the climate to the clothes they wear is genetically engineered. Along with other youths in this society, a girl named Kim faces a fateful day: the reading of her genome. The results will decide her career, friendship, and even who she will marry. Those who show flaws are kicked out of the system, and on Kim's big day, the unthinkable happens. Are her "flaws" a curse, or a blessing?
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Comedy
Full-length, 45-60 minutes
3 females, 2 males (5-9 actors possible: 1-7 females, 2-8 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Priscilla, a lonely woman who works at a hobby shop, is so empathetic that she cries nightly while watching game shows. But her evening routine gets weird when she starts receiving 3 AM phone calls -- from aliens. When she finally picks up, the aliens ask her a big favor: to save the
world. In this fantastical play examining loss, love, and the search for answers, Priscilla looks to the only expert she knows, her favorite gameshow contestant Simon, to save both worlds before it's too late.
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| "Disjointed, charming and bewildering, and somehow makes emotional sense -- in short, playwright Walt McGough has captured dream logic exactly." |
| --Mark Gail, The Washington Post |
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Fantasy
Full-length, 100-115 minutes
5 females, 4 males, 11 either
(9-23 actors possible: 4-17 females, 3-16 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Whit, a seventeen-year-old girl, is yanked into another world where time behaves strangely, and bizarre creatures are out to get her. Whit must befriend a boy named Six and find a way back to Earth before she's trapped in the alternate universe forever.
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| "Luminous..." |
| --Dramatics Magazine |
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Farce
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
7 females, 6 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
It's Friday after school and the science lab is empty -- or so everyone thinks. Miss B., the eccentric science teacher, is secretly using the lab to conduct her questionable experiments. David is counting on meeting up with his new lady love, Ukranian student Anichka, without getting caught by his girlfriend, Rebecca. Meanwhile, two loveable nerds plot to increase their social standing by developing a new smartphone app with potentially dangerous (but comical) ramifications. When the school principal brings in the cops to expel Miss B., stories collide to hilarious effect in this fast-paced and witty farce.
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Comedy
Short, 45-55 minutes
14 females, 7 males, 12 either (10-46 actors possible: 7-26 females, 3-20 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A scientific exploration is taking place into one of the greatest mysteries known to man (and woman) -- how could Sarah Hillsbury, one of the world's most educated teenagers, have become so stupid as to fall in love? Two scientists delve into this experiment, complete with various iterations of Sarah to comically uncover whether intelligence is powerful enough to make one invulnerable to love. What will be the final analysis? (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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Comedy
Full-length, 100-120 minutes
19 females, 15 males, 2 either (18-70 actors possible: 10-40 females, 8-30 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Do not be fooled. This is not a play; it's a scientific exploration. With the help of an unsuspecting audience member named Rick, two verbose scientists attempt to uncover one of the greatest mysteries known to man (and woman) -- why do people fall in love? In this hilarious play, various versions of Sarah, one of the world's most educated teenagers, explore the steps that resulted in this genius weeping on her bed over a boy. Will they be able to discover how this most heinous mistake was perpetrated? (A one-act version of this play is also available.)
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Drama (with comedy)
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
6 females, 6 males (8-36 actors possible: 4-28 females, 4-28 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Fictional and historical figures cross paths in this fragmented tale of the birth of the atomic bomb, its first test in Los Alamos, and the subsequent bombing of Hiroshima. Incorporating elements of Japanese Bunraku puppet theater -- as well as history, mythology, literature, and parody -- Hiroshima: crucible of light weaves together a story of fear and dark humor, creating a fractured, multimedia look at one of the most dangerous tightropes humankind has ever walked.
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
8 females, 2 males (8-30 actors possible: 6-28 females, 2-24 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Loosely adapted from a 9th grade biology textbook, Everything So Far is a whimsical interweaving of several impossible stories -- a Dinosaur looking for her lost egg, a Biologist with dark intentions, a Fly with 24 hours to live, the three Fates, the All Chimp Runaway Lab Monkey Band, and a narrator, Peter, who has recently died but finds his way back in time to the moment of his most perfect peace.
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
5 females
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 3.
Several actresses are competing for the role of a scientist who can slow down and revive a beam of light. Meg has a history with the director, Patti has a history of being unbeatable, and Jennifer needs an illuminating boost of confidence.
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Odds&Ends
plays from the Odd Fellows Hall
by Nicole Quinn |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
4 females, 3 males (6-27 actors possible: 3-21 females, 3-14 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
A single love story is told by the same couple at three different points in their lives together (Marchen Two by Two); a group of pigeons observe the vivid nature of their human neighbor's love affair (Sideout); six students discuss the results of their failed science project, the planet Earth (Science Project). Odds&Ends is a collection of seven unique small-cast short plays that range from comedic to dramatic to poetic.
To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Spirit is Willing
Sideout
Sandchair Cantata
Relative Time
Marchen Two by Two
Science Project
Fugue
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Comedy
Full-length, 120-130 minutes
3 females, 4 males, 23 either
(18-40 actors possible: 3-35 females, 4-35 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Badger, Ratty, Mole, and the rest of their animal cohorts are on a mission to save their beloved riverbank home, now gravely ill from the effects of global warming. Their plan is to enter the Wide World and teach it to rethink its fundamental notions of design, but first, they must overcome a group of criminal weasels and a very stubborn Toad. Influenced by William McDonough and Michael Braungart's environmental text Cradle to Cradle, this version of The Wind in the Willows is a modern, comedic adaptation of Kenneth Graham's classic novel.
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