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Split Decision: a humorous middle school play for character education

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Can one decision change your entire life? In playwright Quinn Baldwin's latest play, Split Decision, aspiring thespian Kate is about to find out firsthand. When a fellow student falls in the hallway, Kate has to make a split-second decision: keep

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Romayo & Julie: a humorous adaptation of Romeo & Juliet for the classroom

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Re-experience the Shakespearean classic, Romeo & Juliet with this modern, humorous adaptation that can be used in the classroom for discussion or Reader's Theater, on the stage for a royalty-free performance or as part of a school-wide read for

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A Christmas Carol:a modern play for reader's theater or royalty-free performance

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As a companion text for Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Three Ghosts and a Jock is the full package including a script for 23 actors which can be performed royalty-free or used in the classroom as a reader's theater production. This modern

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Drama, Literature, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

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The Poe Plays: modern (mostly!) humorous twists on Edgar Allan Poe's stories

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A Tell-Tale Heart. The Cask of Amontillado. The Black Cat. The Fall of the House of Usher. The Raven. The Pit and the Pendulum. They're all here, assembled in one place to delight and terrify your students and give you a fun and new way to

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The Missing Monologues

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Middle schooler Gwynie Gunderson has gone missing and everyone has an opinion about where she is. Told through 30 interconnected one-minute monologues, The Missing Monologues frames the story of one extraordinary girl and builds on the mystery

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Stuck: a middle school comedy spin on Groundhog Day

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What if you got the chance to redo the last five minutes of your life? Again. And again. And again? In the hilarious tradition of films like Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow, five self-labeled mean kids find themselves stuck, not in an entire

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Odder Things: a royalty-free play inspired by Stranger Things

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A hilarious spin-off of the popular Netflix series, Stranger Things, Odder Things is an original play with 28 parts for use as a fun classroom read-aloud or a royalty-free stage play. When one of a group of misfits goes missing, his friends must go

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Playing the Playwright

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A ticking clock. Two rival clubs. Only one winner. Quinn Baldwin’s latest play for middle schoolers, Playing the Playwright, lightheartedly wrestles with the use of artificial intelligence–and plagiarism in general–by students. The rules of the

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Mrs. Frankenstein: a humorous retelling of Mary Shelley's classic

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Adapted from Mary Shelley's classic, Mrs. Frankenstein is a humorous retelling in which the monster is a artificial intelligent machine created by an engineering teacher and her students. Feeling threatened by humans and desperate for robot

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Drama, Literature, Robotics

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Four Square: the ultimate middle school underdog story

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Elizabeth loves to read, but her school library is closing due to budget cuts. The only way to save it is to come up with $50,000. And, the only way to do that? A little playground game called four square. Elizabeth, along with help from her

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The Distance Duets

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Looking for an inexpensive, royalty-free play to perform while your school is in remote learning or needing to socially distance on stage? The Distance Duets is your ticket for a flexible solution to these issues facing teachers today. These ten

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The Conversation Club: a character education riff on The Breakfast Club

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Looking for an interactive way to confront online bullying at your school? To generate empathy in your students? To make them laugh? To delight an audience? Look no farther than The Conversation Club, a royalty-free, large-cast play based on the

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Drama, Life Skills, Oral Communication

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Split Decision: the Zoom version!

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The Play's the Thing's best-selling play has now been adapted for Zoom to meet the need for online instruction activities! The plague has shut down the playhouses before, but the show must go on! In playwright Quinn Baldwin's play for 5th-12th

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Eden High

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Based on scripture from Genesis, Eden High re-imagines Adam and Eve as contemporary students and their expulsion from high school. Includes topics for discussion and the full script for four actors that can be used for performance or reader's

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Drama, Religion, Literature

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English Language Arts, Reading, Specialty, Arts & Music, Drama, Life Skills, Religion, Literature, Character Education, Short Stories, Robotics, Oral Communication, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Halloween