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The Overcoat

By Tim Kelly. Based on Nikolai Gogol's story.

Product Code: O20000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 4m., 4w. (5m., 3 to 4w.)

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

In 19th-century Russia, a humble clerk in the Ministry of Legal Records, Akaky Akayevich, scrapes and saves to purchase a handsome new overcoat. The garment, trimmed in cat fur, transforms him into a person who matters. When the overcoat is stolen by a ruffian, Akaky is driven nearly mad and dies of pneumonia. But wait! Akaky refuses to accept his fate. He returns from the grave and takes out his anger by snatching fine overcoats from the backs of good citizens!

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Adventures With Young King Arthur

Book and lyrics by David Lewman. Music by Kevin Stites.

Product Code: A07000

Musical

Cast Size: 7m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

"A winner," "a musical gem," "one of the most appealing productions for young audiences I've seen," says the reviewer at the Chicago Sun-Times. To teach his pupil Arthur that girls can be just as smart as boys, Merlin magically travels to the present, where he invites Sara, a bright, studious teenager, to visit the Dark Ages. Music, fun and adventure—all in this exciting new version of the Arthurian legend.

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Horse-Scents

By J. Mick Dunna.

Product Code: H20000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre

Cast Size: 6m., 4w. (4 minor roles with doubling, extras.)

Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

The play-within-a-movie-within-a-play chronicles the tough times that Chip's Manure Museum has fallen upon, the minimal success of Patty's perfumes and daughter Sweet Roady's lonely aloneness.

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An Uncertain Hour

By Nicholas A. Patricca.

Product Code: U17000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre

Cast Size: 9m., 2w. (One young boy.)

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Approx. Run Time: 65 min.

Intensely dramatic and moving, this play tells the story of the transformation of Primo Levi, an Italian-Jewish chemist, into a writer because of his experience in Auschwitz. The play poetically explores the spiritual struggle at the heart of all of Levi's writing: the dual effort of every person to resist spiritual as well as physical extinction and to construct a meaning for human existence.

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Arrivals

By Jerome McDonough after "The Rivals " by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Product Code: A60000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 6m., 6w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

One of literature's most enduring classics has been lovingly remodeled for young contemporary audiences. Although the characters are all younger and their names have been changed, all the rich plot elements still abound.

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Circles of Grace

By Paul Nicholas Mason.

Product Code: C91000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 6m., 2w. (1 girl.)

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

An officer of an occupying army takes command of a happy household in a peaceful nation. The family initially accepts his domination, but eventually they are moved to rebellion. Soaring speech, vivid characters and a haunting conclusion guarantee audiences will leave the theatre disturbed, moved and discussing how peaceful people can/should respond to brute force.

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A Tale of Two Cities

By Robert Johanson. From the novel by Charles Dickens.

Product Code: T31000

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Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 13m., 8w. (3 children, up to 40 cast without doubling, extras.)

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Approx. Run Time: 130 min.

Sidney Carton, a dissolute lawyer, who bears a striking resemblance to Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, loves the same woman as Darnay, the charming Lucie Manette. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this romance will eventually lead us to the guillotine.The play has been lavishly praised for its adherence to Dickens' narrative and embodiment of the characters he created.

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Eating Chicken Feet

By Kitty Chen.

Product Code: E32000

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Cast Size: 3m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

"Ms. Chen's dramatic imagination is obviously unusual. More important, it is always unpredictable," writes the New York Times of this dark comedy about divorce, abandonment, suicidal impulse, and the abasement of Chinese women. Blending the absurd and playful with the dark and painful, Chen examines the effects of divorce on a Chinese-American family.

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Trip's Cinch

By Phyllis Nagy.

Product Code: T39000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In this caustic and wry play, Ms. Nagy gives us both the truth and the lie about this random meeting of two people and the politics of sexual pursuit.

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