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Romeo and Juliet

2011
An adaptation, with simplified language, of Shakespeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two young people whose love is doomed by their feuding families.

Julius Caesar

2011
An adaptation, with simplified language, of "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March.

Teedie

the boy who would be President
A reader's theater script about Theodore Roosevelt, known as Teedie when he was a boy, who was sick with very bad asthma and the doctors did not know how to treat it, everyone expected Teedie to die young, but with hard work and determination, he overcame his sickness and became the President of the United States.

Plays from famous stories and fairy tales

royalty-free dramatizations of favorite children's stories
1984
Twenty-eight short plays based on the works of Hans Christian Andersen, the brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and other well-known tales and stories.

No more dead dogs

2008
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

The miracle worker

a play in three acts
1989

Stage Fright on a Summer Night

Magic Tree House
2002
The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to the Eliabethan England. They meet William Shakespeare, one of the geatest writers of all time. Jack and Annie will need to help him with his latest show.

The glass menagerie

a play
1949
This play is a tender, despairing portrait of two women, one lost is the past, the other in herself.

Bookmarks are people too!

2014
"Hank's class is putting on a play, and Hank wants the lead part: Aqua Fly, but he freezes in his audition and can only buzz like a fly, so his teacher creates a special part for Hank.--Publisher.

The taming of the shrew for young people

1986
An abridged version of Shakespeare's original text, with suggestions for simple staging. Includes parenthetical explanations and descriptions within the text and announcers who summarize deleted passages.

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