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Layla the Body Washer

By Nicholas A. Patricca.

Product Code: LP1000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 2w., up to 1 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Layla the Body Washer focuses on the effort to maintain one’s humanity in spite of the daily destruction of all that is human. Aliya, who has dedicated her life to preparing the dead for a dignified burial, rescues young Layla from a collapsed building and prepares her to take on the sacred task of respecting and learning from the dead.

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The Milk Dragon

By Suzan Zeder.

Product Code: MT5000

Full-length Play

Cast Size: 2m., 2w., 1 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

In a village where anything different or dangerous must be banished, Zack and Abra encounter a creature made of light and color and follow it to the place where everything forbidden still exists. They unwittingly wreak havoc when their unacknowledged Fear escapes their bodies and threatens to destroy everything it encounters. This political parable explores the power of creativity, imagination, artistic expression and freedom of choice, as it celebrates the courage of children.

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Come Rain or Come Shine

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: CT9000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Frank and Dorothy trace their joys, sorrows and perpetual misconnection through 50 years of selected notes and letters. From their college graduation in 1950 until their 50th class reunion in 2000, they maintained a friendship despite everything and finally found themselves face to face and free to be together at last.

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Hogmanay

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: HJ2000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

As Ben and Molly prepare to celebrate Scottish New Year alone in their Oak Park home, an ice storm causes an automobile accident outside, and Molly and Ben end up as impromptu hosts to the accident victim Wallace, their next-door neighbor Sharon, their daughter Lizzy, and Wallace’s daughter Amy. Both the older and younger characters are forced to face the issues brought on by aging, which they muddle through with humor. Despite their regrets from the past and fears for the future, love endures.

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Recalculating

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.

Product Code: RF2000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1 to 2m., 3 to 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Financially strained art dealers Libby and Beth take an automobile ride across a big city to a rendezvous during which they appear engaged in the illegal sale of stolen fossils. Their trip is comically punctuated by the unctuous female voice of the GPS unit on the dashboard, which begins to make cryptic remarks that seem less concerned with geography and more with the course of Libby and Beth's lives, ultimately leading them to make a significant decision.

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Sixty-Minute Shakespeare: The Tempest

Adapted from Shakespeare by Cass Foster.

Product Code: S2U000

Full-length Play

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

Cast Size: 9 to 12m., 6w., flexible.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

An ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most widely read playwright.

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The Chronicles of Kalki

By Aditi Brennan Kapil.

Product Code: CR2000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 3w.

Limited Streaming Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

The Chronicles of Kalki is a comic-book infused girl-gang thriller chronicling the adventures of Kalki, a young girl who may or may not be the final avatar of Vishnu, come to rid the world of demons and evil.

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Brahman/i, a One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show

By Aditi Brennan Kapil.

Product Code: BM2000

Full-length Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 1 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 95 min.

Brahman/i: A One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show is a stand-up comedy routine that takes on history, mythology, gender roles and high school through the inimitable comic lens of Brahman/i, a performer tethered by neither gender nor culture.

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