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Ophelia Lives!
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00This one-act play for teens deals honestly and openly with depression and suicidal impulses among teens. Set backstage in a high school theater, a high school drama class is rehearsing Hamlet and personal issues--cutting, eating disorders and low self-esteem--that are seldom discussed begin to emerge after the teacher discovers a suicide note. Ideal for middle school and high school students. Easy to tour with a simple set. PDF available. -
Oregon Fever
$11.97 – $55.00Price range: $11.97 through $55.00In this one-act period drama Joshua Blanchard is preparing to leave Kansas to head west on the Oregon Trail in l835. On this climactic day, his youngest son dies, his daughter decides to marry and stay at home, and he has an important confrontation with his wife. Performs well for middle school, high school, community theater. Great for Reader's Theater, American history or social studies class. -
Original Relocation
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples. -
Papito
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom. -
Patres Familias
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00“Patres Familias” is the sixth installment in the Playroom series, and this one finds Rich just off of his back porch, stealing some time (and some beer) with his neighbor.
