In The Spotlight
Featured new releases and most popular titles on 5/24/2013
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| 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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| 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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| SCHOOL SPIRIT
- - JUST RELEASED - -
By Scott Haan
Flexible cast. Approx. 2 m, 7 w, 2 flexible.
Script: 35 pages.
Faith and Ivy are best friends for life…and beyond. On the surface, they don’t have much in common. One is respectful, the other sarcastic. One is studious, the other a troublemaker. One is a friendly actress, the other a reclusive poet. And, oh yeah, one is alive, the other, not so much. Ivy has been dead for weeks,
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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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