In The Spotlight
Featured new releases and most popular titles on 5/21/2013
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| DUI=DOA
By Dan Roberts
Flexible casting
Script: 24 pages
The effects of drunk driving are brought home in these two very short one-acts combined under one title. In "Only Seventeen" (3 m, 4 w, 2 flexible), Corey Martin is dead from drinking and driving. At his funeral he desperately calls out to his family and friends,"I can't be dead. I'm only 17!" but no one hears him. A fellow student delivers a eulogy full of irony as
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| DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES-Shakes...
-- New Release --
By Jane and Jim Jeffries
Cast: 2-3m, 6w
Script: 32 pages
Okay, these housewives may not be real, but they are desperate. Shakespeare has been manipulating and twisting their lives for six plays now, and they desperately want to escape his evil machinations. But are they desperate enough to commit murder? Shakespeare has been found dead: stabbed, poisoned, starved, choked, bitten by an asp, and even
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| JUST SO, MR. KIPLING
-- New Release --
By Lisa Nanni-Messegee
Inspired by the life and works of Rudyard Kipling
Cast: From 14 (5 m, 5 f, 4 flex) to 26 speaking roles, extras.
Celebrated author Rudyard Kipling is shocked after receiving news that his only son John is missing in action in WW I. Kipling bottles his grief, throwing his focus on a new book. Suddenly he’s interrupted by a mysterious little girl named Priyam. Charmed by her i
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| PARLOR GAMES
- - JUST RELEASED - -
By Ed Tasca
Cast: 4 m, 4 w
Script: 60 pages. About 90 minutes.
A funeral parlor is the perfect setting for this quirky, off-kilter farce where family and “special” friends come to mourn, to surprise, to plot, and even to negotiate their futures. Everyone thinks Donny D’Silva was killed in a car crash. But it wasn’t Donny at all. Then again, it was – until everyone assumes the real victim is Rod
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| RUMPLESTILTSKIN: TRUE HERO
-- New Release --
By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston
Cast: 6 m, 7 w, 6 flexible,
extras including children
Script: 44 pages
At last, Rumpelstiltskin gets to be the hero! Based on the original Grimm fairy tale, this traditionally misunderstood character earns a well-deserved happy ending, winning the hand of Freya, the beautiful miller’s daughter. Both comic and suspenseful, and using elements of other fairy
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| GRAVEDIGGER
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By Eric Luthi
Cast: 2 m, 1 w, 2 flexible.
Script: 22 pages. 35-45 minutes.
Here is a dark, suspenseful play that follows the life of Tiburtius Gerhardt, the gravedigger. As the cemetery he has worked in all his life fills up and comes to its end, Tiburtius tries to cope with his demanding and demeaning boss; his deceased uncle; and two other denizens who should or should not really be there. It’s
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