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Lysistrata adapted by Ellen McLaughlin

  • Comedy
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  • 60 - 80 minutes
  • 13 W, 7 M,  (13-26 actors possible: 8-16 W, 5-10 M)
Productions (88)
(13)

This fresh, fast-paced comedy, inspired by the Aristophanes play, follows Lysistrata, an Athenian who calls for the women of Greece to help end... Read more

This fresh, fast-paced comedy, inspired by the Aristophanes play, follows Lysistrata, an Athenian who calls for the women of Greece to help end... Read more

Available as eScript

Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending by Ann Fraistat

  • Comedy
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  • 75 - 90 minutes
  • 2 W, 4 M,  (6-14 actors possible: 2-4 W, 4-10 M)
Productions (28)
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What if Romeo had stayed helplessly in love with Rosaline instead of Juliet? Or if Mercutio and Tybalt hadn't died...but had gotten together... Read more

What if Romeo had stayed helplessly in love with Rosaline instead of Juliet? Or if Mercutio and Tybalt hadn't died...but had gotten together... Read more

Brother Wolf adapted by Laurelyn Dossett

  • Drama
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  • 90 - 100 minutes
  • 2 W, 4 M, 4 Any (6-18 actors possible: 2-8 W, 4-10 M)
Productions (23)
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Blending folklore, myth, music and mountain religion, Brother Wolf is an Appalachian adventure tale based on the story of Beowulf. High in the... Read more

Blending folklore, myth, music and mountain religion, Brother Wolf is an Appalachian adventure tale based on the story of Beowulf. High in the... Read more

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The Trojan Women adapted by Ellen McLaughlin

  • Drama
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  • 70 - 90 minutes
  • 12 W, 2 M,  (12-40 actors possible: 10-30 W, 2-10 M)
Productions (163)
(24)

In the wake of their devastating defeat, the women of Troy, all now widows, wait on the beach below the ravaged city to be claimed by their Greek... Read more

In the wake of their devastating defeat, the women of Troy, all now widows, wait on the beach below the ravaged city to be claimed by their Greek... Read more

Tartuffe (full-length version) adapted by Timothy Mooney

  • Comedy
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  • 90 - 105 minutes
  • 5 W, 5 M, 2 Any (12-15 actors possible: 4-7 W, 5-9 M)
Productions (41)
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When the religious hypocrite Tartuffe ingratiates himself into the good graces of Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle, he is taken into their home... Read more

When the religious hypocrite Tartuffe ingratiates himself into the good graces of Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle, he is taken into their home... Read more

Courage adapted by John Pielmeier

  • Drama
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  • 80 - 90 minutes
  • 1 M, 
Productions (7)
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Inspired by an address given by Sir James M. Barrie to the graduating class of St. Andrew's University in Scotland, Courage is an intimate look... Read more

Inspired by an address given by Sir James M. Barrie to the graduating class of St. Andrew's University in Scotland, Courage is an intimate look... Read more

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Candide by Jon Jory

  • Comedy
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  • 90 - 100 minutes
  • 2 W, 4 M,  (6-42 actors possible: 2-11 W, 4-33 M)
Productions (1)
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Naive Louisiana boy Candide finds himself booted from his home plantation after an indiscreet affair with the youthful Cunegonde. Thrust into a... Read more

Naive Louisiana boy Candide finds himself booted from his home plantation after an indiscreet affair with the youthful Cunegonde. Thrust into a... Read more

Available as eScript

Goodbye Cruel World by Robert Ross Parker

  • Comedy
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  • 85 - 100 minutes
  • 2 W, 4 M,  (6-14 actors possible: 2-4 W, 4-10 M)
Productions (3)
(0)

Semyon Semyonovich has a problem: he thinks his life isn't worth living. Unfortunately, everyone he knows agrees with him! But when he decides to... Read more

Semyon Semyonovich has a problem: he thinks his life isn't worth living. Unfortunately, everyone he knows agrees with him! But when he decides to... Read more

Wanda's Monster by Laurie Berkner

  • Comedy
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  • 50 - 55 minutes
  • 2 W, 2 M, 
Productions (15)
(6)

This warm-hearted musical tells the story of an imaginative little girl named Wanda and her unexpected bond with a fuzzy, purple monster as she... Read more

This warm-hearted musical tells the story of an imaginative little girl named Wanda and her unexpected bond with a fuzzy, purple monster as she... Read more

The Spoon River Project adapted by Tom Andolora

  • Drama
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  • 85 - 95 minutes
  • 5 W, 6 M,  (10-18 actors possible: 5-10 W, 5-10 M)
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In this beautifully haunting play based on Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, the former residents of Spoon River examine life and the... Read more

In this beautifully haunting play based on Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, the former residents of Spoon River examine life and the... Read more

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five adapted by Eric Simonson

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 85 - 95 minutes
  • 3 W, 12 M,  (12-23 actors possible: 2-3 W, 10-20 M)
Productions (21)
(0)

Based on Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel, Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is... Read more

Based on Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel, Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is... Read more

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes adapted by Jon Jory

  • Drama
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  • 90 - 100 minutes
  • 4 W, 6 M,  (8-26 actors possible: 3-14 W, 5-20 M)
Productions (79)
(35)

The game's afoot and the legendary friendship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is born, as they face a quartet of the most confounding crimes to... Read more

The game's afoot and the legendary friendship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is born, as they face a quartet of the most confounding crimes to... Read more

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Persuasion adapted by Jon Jory

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 100 - 110 minutes
  • 8 W, 7 M,  (15-20 actors possible: 8-10 W, 7-10 M)
Productions (10)
(0)

The Elliot family verges on financial ruin, and image-conscious patriarch Sir Walter must rent their estate to avoid bankruptcy. His daughter... Read more

The Elliot family verges on financial ruin, and image-conscious patriarch Sir Walter must rent their estate to avoid bankruptcy. His daughter... Read more

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The Love of Three Oranges (one-act version) by Hillary DePiano

  • Comedy
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  • 35 - 40 minutes
  • 8 W, 6 M, 4 Any (10-30 actors possible)
Productions (75)
(29)

Prince Tartaglia's life is filled with misery until an evil witch and her equally evil henchmen curse him to search for three giant oranges. But... Read more

Prince Tartaglia's life is filled with misery until an evil witch and her equally evil henchmen curse him to search for three giant oranges. But... Read more

Anne of Green Gables adapted by Peter DeLaurier

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 120 - 130 minutes
  • 8 W, 3 M,  (11-13 actors possible: 8-10 W, exactly 3 M)
Productions (208)
(31)

When aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send to the orphanage in Nova Scotia for a boy to help them on the farm, they get more... Read more

When aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send to the orphanage in Nova Scotia for a boy to help them on the farm, they get more... Read more

Austentatious by Matt Board and 3 others

  • Comedy
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  • 100 - 120 minutes
  • 4 W, 3 M, 
Productions (13)
(2)

When the Central Riverdale Amateur Players announce a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, stage manager Sam has her hands full with a colorful... Read more

When the Central Riverdale Amateur Players announce a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, stage manager Sam has her hands full with a colorful... Read more

The Imaginary Invalid (full-length version) adapted by Timothy Mooney

  • Comedy
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  • 105 - 135 minutes
  • 4 W, 8 M, 6 Any (12-25 actors possible: 4-12 W, 1-19 M)
Productions (28)
(3)

The hypochondriac Argan wants nothing more than to be sick, or at least to be thought of as sick, and tended to by Doctors and Family (notably... Read more

The hypochondriac Argan wants nothing more than to be sick, or at least to be thought of as sick, and tended to by Doctors and Family (notably... Read more

Around the World in Eighty Days adapted by John Hildreth

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 115 - 130 minutes
  • 1 W, 10 M, 5 Any (9-53 actors possible: 1-17 W, 8-36 M)
Productions (38)
(3)

In 1872, on a gentleman's wager, Phileas Fogg and his French manservant Passepartout attempt to traverse the globe in just eighty days. The two... Read more

In 1872, on a gentleman's wager, Phileas Fogg and his French manservant Passepartout attempt to traverse the globe in just eighty days. The two... Read more

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The Persians adapted by Ellen McLaughlin

  • Drama
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  • 80 - 100 minutes
  • 1 W, 10 M,  (9-15 actors possible: exactly 1 W, 8-14 M)
Productions (8)
(0)

In this moving and poetic adaptation of Aeschylus' drama, Queen Atossa and her subjects anxiously await news of their King Xerxes' expedition to... Read more

In this moving and poetic adaptation of Aeschylus' drama, Queen Atossa and her subjects anxiously await news of their King Xerxes' expedition to... Read more

The Annotated War of the Worlds: The 1938 Radio Script by Howard E. Koch

  • Drama
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  • 60 - 65 minutes
  • 5 M, 6 Any (4-22 actors possible: 0-9 W, 4-22 M)
Productions (13)
(1)

The original manuscript used for the notorious 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast of The War of the Worlds, this book includes notes and changes to... Read more

The original manuscript used for the notorious 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast of The War of the Worlds, this book includes notes and changes to... Read more