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21 Aug
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THE BURDENS
by Matt Schatz.
Cast: 1F, 1M
Full-length Play, Dark Comedy.
Adult siblings Mordy and Jane have a problem. Their dreadful, centenarian grandfather is an emotional and financial tax on the family, and he just won?t die. Scheming almost entirely via text messages, the siblings hatch an outrageous plan to relieve themselves of their family?s burdens and their own.
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JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES
by Syrie James.
Cast: 4W, 3M
Full-length Play, Comedy
It's a little like "The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged)," but for Jane Austen. And Jane herself narrates the play with a madcap cast to deliver condensed versions of all six of Austen's beloved novels, including modern day zingers about Austen's fame, fandom, movies, and TV series.
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MR. DICKENS' HAT
by Michael Hollinger
Cast: 6-15 F or M
Full length Play, Christmas/Holiday
Set in London on December 21-22, 1865 ("the darkest night of the year"), this witty, heartfelt play-with-songs deftly weaves together Dickensian storytelling with a playful theatricality, featuring nine "original Victorian carols" and a diverse cast portraying an array of colorful characters.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING 101
by Mark St. Germain
Cast: 2F, 3M
Full-length Play, Comedy
A broad, five-character comedy about a neurotic, amateur actress who leads her community college class of terrified adults to compete in their county's First Annual Public Speaking Competition. Their cross-currents, tongue-tied quirks and foibles escalate as the pressure builds.
by Matt Schatz.
Cast: 1F, 1M
Full-length Play, Dark Comedy.
Adult siblings Mordy and Jane have a problem. Their dreadful, centenarian grandfather is an emotional and financial tax on the family, and he just won?t die. Scheming almost entirely via text messages, the siblings hatch an outrageous plan to relieve themselves of their family?s burdens and their own.
Buy digital script
JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES
by Syrie James.
Cast: 4W, 3M
Full-length Play, Comedy
It's a little like "The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged)," but for Jane Austen. And Jane herself narrates the play with a madcap cast to deliver condensed versions of all six of Austen's beloved novels, including modern day zingers about Austen's fame, fandom, movies, and TV series.
Buy digital script
MR. DICKENS' HAT
by Michael Hollinger
Cast: 6-15 F or M
Full length Play, Christmas/Holiday
Set in London on December 21-22, 1865 ("the darkest night of the year"), this witty, heartfelt play-with-songs deftly weaves together Dickensian storytelling with a playful theatricality, featuring nine "original Victorian carols" and a diverse cast portraying an array of colorful characters.
Buy digital script
PUBLIC SPEAKING 101
by Mark St. Germain
Cast: 2F, 3M
Full-length Play, Comedy
A broad, five-character comedy about a neurotic, amateur actress who leads her community college class of terrified adults to compete in their county's First Annual Public Speaking Competition. Their cross-currents, tongue-tied quirks and foibles escalate as the pressure builds.
WELLS AND WELLES
by Amy Crider
Cast: 3M
Full-length Play, Drama
In October of 1940, two years after Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Orson happened to be at the same hotel as H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas, on the same day. Orson is 25 years old, H.G. is 75. Two men at the beginning and end of their careers battle it out. Based on true events.
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TWO DEGREES
by Tira Palmquist
Cast: 3F, 2M
Full-length Play, Political, Drama
Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees first hand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. As a recent widow, the intersection of science and politics, of politics and the personal, Emma finds more than just a little is breaking up under the strain of change.
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CITYSCRAPE
by Sophie McIntosh
Cast: 3F
Full-length Play, Drama, Comedy
In this three-character play, roommates Kitt and Kat are willing to do anything for the sake of their art... even if it means destroying the friendship that keeps them afloat. A love letter to surviving your first year in New York, CITYSCRAPE examines what it means to truly be "seen" by another person--and what happens if the version of ourselves that's reflected back is an egocentric monster.
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FORTUNE
by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Cast: 1F, 1M
Full-length Play, Romantic Comedy
Maude, a lonely, surly, storefront psychic has accepted that love is not in the cards for her. She can see the future and knows this to be true. But when Jeremy, a despondent love-hungry accountant threatens to end it all if she sees no love for him, she must wrestle with fate, and in changing his destiny, change her own.