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Twelfth Night (abridged) adapted by Larry Nehring

  • Comedy
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  • 45 - 60 minutes
  • 2 W, 2 M, 1 Any (5-10 actors possible: 0-5 W, 0-5 M)
Productions (9)
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Shakespeare's classic comedy unfolds fast and furiously in this abridged one-act version, trimmed to the story's very essence. Believing her... Read more

Shakespeare's classic comedy unfolds fast and furiously in this abridged one-act version, trimmed to the story's very essence. Believing her... Read more

Not a Creature Was Stirring by Christopher Durang

  • Comedy
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  • 10 - 15 minutes
  • 2 W, 2 M, 5 Any (7-9 actors possible: 2-7 W, 2-7 M)
Productions (23)
(0)

A tyrannical father tries to pass off a classic Christmas poem as his own. But his version is slightly different -- it involves bats, which... Read more

A tyrannical father tries to pass off a classic Christmas poem as his own. But his version is slightly different -- it involves bats, which... Read more

Sort of Beowulf: A Sort of Comedy by Richard Wolf

  • Comedy
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  • 45 - 50 minutes
  • 6 W, 2 M, 9 Any (7-17 actors possible: 0-17 W, 0-17 M)
Productions (14)
(0)

This farcical version of the Old English epic features a rapper chorus and a family of wisecracking servants. The boastful hero Beowulf saves... Read more

This farcical version of the Old English epic features a rapper chorus and a family of wisecracking servants. The boastful hero Beowulf saves... Read more

Zealot by Julie Marie Myatt

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 10 - 15 minutes
  • 1 W, 3 M, 
Productions (18)
(0)

Four young people witness the suicide of a zealot, and the shock of this death turns their thoughts to what they would sacrifice life for. What... Read more

Four young people witness the suicide of a zealot, and the shock of this death turns their thoughts to what they would sacrifice life for. What... Read more

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Harriet Tubman: An American Moses by Gay Monteverde

  • Drama
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  • 40 - 50 minutes
  • 1 W, 1 M,  (2 actors possible: 1-2 W, 0-1 M)
Productions (13)
(1)

When a storyteller summons Harriet Tubman from the past, one of America's greatest heroines offers to divulge the details of her extraordinary... Read more

When a storyteller summons Harriet Tubman from the past, one of America's greatest heroines offers to divulge the details of her extraordinary... Read more

Available as eScript

Relative by C. Denby Swanson

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 30 - 40 minutes
  • 2 W, 2 M, 5 Any (9 actors possible: 2-7 W, 1-7 M)
Productions (7)
(1)

When Alberta, the daughter of a mathematician, struggles to comprehend her parents' impending divorce, she invokes her father's hero and her own... Read more

When Alberta, the daughter of a mathematician, struggles to comprehend her parents' impending divorce, she invokes her father's hero and her own... Read more

Available as eScript

Whooo Are Youuu? by Michael Bigelow Dixon

  • Comedy
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  • 30 - 35 minutes
  • 12 W, 6 M, 2 Any (18-20 actors possible: 8-20 W, 0-10 M)
Productions (1)
(4)

It’s Sweeps Week for the game show Whooo Are Youuu? and the host, Buck Lucket, has a new assistant, Ronny Lonny, who has booked America’s... Read more

It’s Sweeps Week for the game show Whooo Are Youuu? and the host, Buck Lucket, has a new assistant, Ronny Lonny, who has booked America’s... Read more

Cold Reading by Paul Dooley

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 10 - 15 minutes
  • 1 W, 3 M, 3 Any (7-10 actors possible: 1-4 W, 3-6 M)
Productions (18)
(0)

When a menacing stranger appears at the door of a theatrical producer's office, the man only has one request: that the producer read aloud a... Read more

When a menacing stranger appears at the door of a theatrical producer's office, the man only has one request: that the producer read aloud a... Read more

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Christmas Thieves: A Small Town Radio Play by Greg Oliver Bodine

  • Comedy
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  • 45 - 55 minutes
  • 2 W, 3 M, 
Productions (24)
(0)

It's Christmas Eve in America's heartland, and radio host Bjorn Gundlarrsen is preparing for the telethon performance that will keep his tiny... Read more

It's Christmas Eve in America's heartland, and radio host Bjorn Gundlarrsen is preparing for the telethon performance that will keep his tiny... Read more

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Lush Life by Nina Shengold

  • Drama
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  • 10 - 15 minutes
  • 1 W, 1 M, 
Productions (5)
(0)

On a late-night subway platform, a single woman encounters a homeless street musician, who may or may not be her schizophrenic first love. (This... Read more

On a late-night subway platform, a single woman encounters a homeless street musician, who may or may not be her schizophrenic first love. (This... Read more

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To the Table by Alan Haehnel

  • Drama
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  • 35 - 45 minutes
  • 12 W, 5 M, 2 Any (17-19 actors possible: 9-14 W, 3-10 M)
Productions (14)
(3)

Jan and her daughter Leah sit at the kitchen table and have a brief conversation while eating ice cream. Leah leaves, and we then rewind to the... Read more

Jan and her daughter Leah sit at the kitchen table and have a brief conversation while eating ice cream. Leah leaves, and we then rewind to the... Read more

Hum of the Arctic by Sarah Hammond

  • Drama
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  • 10 - 14 minutes
  • 2 W, 1 M, 
Productions (21)
(0)

While flipping through a scrapbook, Claire recounts the story of her deaf mother's intriguing meeting with a painter many years ago. Read more

While flipping through a scrapbook, Claire recounts the story of her deaf mother's intriguing meeting with a painter many years ago. Read more

Run by Garth Wingfield

  • Comedy
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  • 13 - 15 minutes
  • 2 W, 1 M, 
Productions (11)
(0)

In a dog run in New York City, dogs sniff one another... and so do humans. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play... Read more

In a dog run in New York City, dogs sniff one another... and so do humans. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play... Read more

Bedlam Moon by Ed Shockley

  • Comedy
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  • 20 - 30 minutes
  • 2 W, 1 M, 
Productions (27)
(2)

New Year's Eve, 1980, the Bronx. Larry, a struggling young writer, awaits the arrival of his hot date, with Marvin Gaye playing suggestively on... Read more

New Year's Eve, 1980, the Bronx. Larry, a struggling young writer, awaits the arrival of his hot date, with Marvin Gaye playing suggestively on... Read more

Love Is Awkward by Melissa Stuppy

  • Comedy
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  • 30 - 45 minutes
  • 7 W, 9 M, 1 Any (13-17 actors possible: 4-8 W, 9-10 M)
Productions (17)
(3)

Tracy Singleton is an optimistic high school newspaper reporter writing an article about the "beauty" of teenage love. Determined to prove her... Read more

Tracy Singleton is an optimistic high school newspaper reporter writing an article about the "beauty" of teenage love. Determined to prove her... Read more

Nancy Blue: Girl Detective by Megan Mostyn-Brown

  • Comedy
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  • 35 - 45 minutes
  • 14 W, 2 M, 1 Any (17 actors possible: 14-15 W, 2-3 M)
Productions (11)
(5)

Framed as a radio play, this creative and jaunty noir spoof of Nancy Drew has Nancy Blue searching to uncover who has kidnapped the high school... Read more

Framed as a radio play, this creative and jaunty noir spoof of Nancy Drew has Nancy Blue searching to uncover who has kidnapped the high school... Read more

Trudy, Carolyn, Martha, and Regina Travel to Outer Space and Have a Pretty Terrible Time There by James Kennedy

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  • 10 - 15 minutes
  • 4 W, 
Productions (14)
(3)

A crew of astronauts share the quiet beauty of infinite space and a peaceful reflection on our place in the universe. But it's been nineteen... Read more

A crew of astronauts share the quiet beauty of infinite space and a peaceful reflection on our place in the universe. But it's been nineteen... Read more

Conspicuous by Winter Miller

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 30 - 40 minutes
  • 8 W, 8 M,  (10-20 actors possible: 5-10 W, 5-10 M)
Productions (6)
(5)

Adoption brings a multitude of diverse people together, transcending race, culture, and traditional gender roles. In this fast-paced collection... Read more

Adoption brings a multitude of diverse people together, transcending race, culture, and traditional gender roles. In this fast-paced collection... Read more

Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew López

  • Comedy
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  • 10 - 15 minutes
  • 1 W, 2 M, 
Productions (11)
(0)

After decades of dominating the Milwaukee Bowling League, monsters may have finally met their match in some recent interplanetary visitors. It's... Read more

After decades of dominating the Milwaukee Bowling League, monsters may have finally met their match in some recent interplanetary visitors. It's... Read more

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Everything Must Go by Nina Shengold

  • Comedy
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  • 15 - 20 minutes
  • 2 W, 2 Any (4-14 actors possible: 2-8 W, 2-6 M)
Productions (4)
(0)

A middle-aged woman sells her past - literally - at a yard sale. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods:... Read more

A middle-aged woman sells her past - literally - at a yard sale. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods:... Read more