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Battle Hymn

Battle Hymn

4 Male, 1 Female

Jim Leonard Jr Published by Samuel French Inc

From award-winning playwright Jim Leonard, this is the story of 16-year-old Martha’s epic pregnancy and her incredible search for motherhood, meaning, and love in a war-torn American landscape After being…

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Beckett or The Honour of God

Beckett or The Honour of God

Large Mixed Cast Male, 5 Female

Jean Anouilh Published by Samuel French Ltd

Never have Anouilh’s characteristic intelligence and irony been employed with more telling effect than in this drama of the tragic relationship between the King Henry of England and the introspective…

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Becoming Eleanor

Becoming Eleanor

3 Male, 3 Female

Marsha Lee Sheiness with Robert Kalfin Published by Dramatic Publishing
BD9

Becoming Eleanor dramatizes the events that shaped the early life and character of Eleanor of Aquitaine from ages 15 to 29 Considered the most extraordinary woman in 12th-century European history, Eleanor…

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Best All Round

Best All Round

0 Male, 4 Female

Marsha Sheiness Published by Samuel French Inc

All female comedy about growing up in Texas, circa 1958 ... A teenage high school senior struggles with homework, dating, her reputation and her self-esteem along side her best friend, Nickie Meanwhile,…

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Bird Woman - The Story of Sacagawea

Bird Woman - The Story of Sacagawea

5 Male, 4 Female

Ric Averill Published by Dramatic Publishing
BA4

    This play follows the adventures of the Shoshone girl who was kidnapped from her people only to become the best-known Native American woman of all time Sacagawea’s grasp of languages and…

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Black Heroes - Seven Plays

Black Heroes - Seven Plays

Errol Hill - editor Published by Applause Books
9781557830272

Collected here for the first time are plays - many of which have been unavailable for decades - which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from the days of slavery…

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Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas

3 Male, 2 Female

Kathryn Walat Published by Samuel French Inc

A provocative, funny and insightful play revisits a crucial moment in American history - 1855, Kansas Territory ... The country is divided and people are turning against their neighbors because of their…

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Boar’s Head

Boar’s Head

8 Male, 5 Female

Don Nigro Published by Samuel French Inc

This big, colorful, uproariously funny and ultimately moving play tells the story of the Shakespearean characters who meet at the Boar's Head Tavern in East Cheap We see the scenes Shakespeare tells us…

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Bog Child - Oxford Playscripts

Bog Child - Oxford Playscripts

Large Mixed Cast

Adrian Flynn Published by Oxford University Press
9780198310877

A sensitive adaptation of Siobhan Dowd’s wonderful novel that intersects the stories of teenage Fergus and his hunger striker brother with Mel, whose ancient body he finds preserved in the bog ... Fergus…

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Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer

Large Mixed Cast

Tim Jorgenson Published by Xulon Press
1591603439

Bonhoeffer is a dramatization of the struggles of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to witness his Christian faith in and against the Third Reich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a prominent pastor and theologian in the so-called…

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