plays

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Feast of Thanksgiving, the first American holiday

a play
1974
Recreates the first Thanksgiving as it might have been, featuring Squanto and a Pilgrim family.

Escape to freedom

a play about young Frederick Douglass
1978
Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Mickey's class play

1998
With the help of his family, Mickey enjoys being a duck in his class play.

No more dead dogs

2002
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.

Pushing up the sky

seven native American plays for children
2000
Uses drama to tell seven different stories from Native American traditions including the Abenaki, Ojibway, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Snohomish, Tlingit, and Zuni.

Good masters! Sweet ladies!

voices from a medieval village
2011
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Wombat divine

1997
Wombat auditions for the Nativity play, but has trouble finding the right part.

You're on!

seven plays in English and Spanish
1999
A collection of seven plays presented in English and Spanish by authors from Spain, Latin America, and the United States.

Macbeth

2002
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.

Ten plays for children from the repertory of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis

1998
Presents the scripts of ten plays adapted from classic works of children's literature or folklore by playwright Timothy Mason for the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, each with production information, a list of characters, and additional reference notes.

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