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Plays for Professional Theatre Production

The dynamic and impressive play scripts listed are suitable for professional theater companies to produce and in most cases can be toured. From some of the most accomplished authors writing for theater. Give them a read and then give us a call to discuss Licensing for Professional Production. Jean Klein our Director will be very pleased to answer questions about regional premieres, artwork and other available resources.

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    Distant Survivors

    $9.97 – $60.00
    In this poetic drama, we see the past through the eyes of a German-American who looks back on his ancestral heritage and tries to come to terms with it.   He encounters voices and embodiments of World War II,  like echoes from the past and tries to find answers where there are only shadows. Distant Survivors was conceived and adapted for the stage by director June Prager, based on Holocaust poetry by William Heyen.
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  • Dreams of Glass

    $12.95 – $29.95
    A one-woman short play with comedic and dramatic elements. Daisi Dickie, a young woman with dreams of becoming a clairvoyant and a changer of lives discovers her power to influence her own life.
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  • Drowning Ophelia

    $13.70 – $95.00
    The set of this one-act comedy for four actors is Jane's bathtub. She finds it inhabited by a strange, Shakespearean woman whose enigmatic commentary intrudes on Jane's thoughts and her new romantic relationship. This dark comedy is about the long-term consequences of childhood abuse and a love letter to those who have suffered. There is always hope.
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  • Fanny & Manny Tie The Knot

    $11.00 – $100.00
    This play is a full-length interactive fundraiser. It’s a spoof wedding between a Virginia Pig Farmer family and a socialite Jewish family from the City. The bride and groom are very much in love, but, oh, when those families clash! The Emcee and Wedding Coordinator are members of the cast, but the caterers are real, of course.
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  • Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave

    $13.70 – $180.00
    In Kentucky, caves were popular tourist attractions and a source of revenue. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Cave, He got trapped undergound for two weeks  and a frantic media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts.
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  • Ghosts of Silver Beach Road

    $13.70 – $75.00
    A 3-character poem-play that reveals the first ten years of the life of an abused child struggling on the cusp of mental illness and successfully hiding it from his dysfunctional family.
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  • Humans Remain

    $13.70 – $145.00
    A well-meaning “foreigner” attempts to rescue the White Cliff Kinfolk – a mixed-race society isolated from civilization in the hills of New Jersey for over 200 years. Love. Death. History. Magic. Nature. Belief. All of these are played out on the stage. All but one character are mixed race, mainly African-American. One character is specified as African-American. The others are as diverse as desired. Highly theatrical staging possible.
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  • Hymn to the Chesapeake

    $11.00 – $90.00
    An award-winning, full-length play with music filled with the poetry of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Robert P. Arthur weaves fragments of conversations and traditional melodies to portray the love and heartbreak of its watermen and women--the love of the sea, a mother for a child, a man for a woman.
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  • Looking Glass Elegy

    $13.97 – $78.00
    Structured as a nonlinear narrative, a film location scout named George takes us on a trip through his past, reflecting on his adventures in the film business as well as past relationships, particularly with a dancer who he came to love and eventually lost. His attempt to come to terms with that loss drives the action of the story.
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  • N

    $13.70 – $125.00
    Adrienne Earle Pender gives us the influential and momentous "N" play, that  dramatizes the struggle between playwright Eugene O’Neill and actor Charles Sidney Gilpin over the inclusion of the "N" word in the script for O’Neill’s first box office hit, The Emperor Jones.  in 1920. The play was turned into a film "The Black Emperor of Broadway" , screened in 2020 to great acclaim.
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  • Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home

    $11.97 – $50.00
    This one-act, two character play opens during the pre-dawn hours of November 5, 1831. It is the day that Nat Turner, leader of a bloody slave rebellion, will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death. In the predawn hours before the trial a mysterious woman enters to purify the courtroom. Seven days later she is there by the hanging tree when Turner is executed and thrown into the darkness of death - where he fears he has been eternally abandoned.
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  • Nat’s Last Struggle

    $11.97 – $45.00
    A one-man play by P. A. Wray.   Nat Turner confronts his conscience in the afterlife. Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an American slave who brought about the only direct, continuous slave rebellion (August 1831) in U. S. history. Some regard him as a monster, others as a hero in search of freedom. Which was he? Great for high school, college, community theater, and readers theater.
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  • Ophelia Chooses

    $13.97 – $125.00
    "Ophelia Chooses" begins at Ophelia’s funeral. After perfunctory mourning by the cast of Hamlet, she is resurrected by a feminist from our time, who offers her the chance to live. Feminist Fay instructs Ophelia in the art of standing up for what she wants (and ultimately believes). This is done by revisiting all the scenes from Hamlet in which Ophelia appears.
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    People R Ready

    $11.95 – $150.00
    College students return to class after the pandemic to find love with a hint of betrayal that could end Alex and Savannah for good.  Foreign exchange students  find new friends at the drama club's spring musical audition. Can Toni lead this group through personal inhibitions and a lack of self-esteem with the magic of music?  Working with Keith, Toni helps him learn to dance in his wheelchair igniting a mutual passion.  The “People R Ready”—are YOU!!!
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  • Phaedra

    $11.00 – $70.00
    A full-length, poetic drama resurrects the love, lust, and retribution of the original Greek legend in modern surroundings. A stepmother's insatiable desire for her husband's son destroys a family. Set in a beach house with the sound of drumming waves and ghostly figures of fishwives in the background, this verse play brings the ancient story back to life.
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  • Priming the Pump

    $11.97 – $120.00
    Fight for Life is a low-rent Jerry-Springer-style talk show whose mantra is embodied by its two major chants: Fight for Life and Stage the Rage; its ratings are sliding and fast. Along comes Grace Truman, a guest whose story seems likely to reverse their declining numbers but she is not quite the guest that host, Burt Solomon, expected.
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