Plays by William Cameron, Catherine Castellani, Philip Kaplan, Pam Harbaugh, Kim E. Ruyle and Richard Manley.
Product Code: AP2000
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The AACT NewPlayFest was created to develop new original work and spark communication and excitement among community theatres. Over a two-year period, playwrights submit their play to AACT for consideration, and winning scripts receive a world premiere. At the end of the festival, all of the winning plays from the 2023-2024 cycle were published in this anthology. See the Included Titles tab above for more information about the winning plays.
Freddy is in love with Angie, and she’s in love with him. The problem? Angie’s married to Spencer, Freddy’s older brother. This sets off a series of comical yet criminal misadventures, putting the whole family in the sights of Detective Lieutenant Alice Ford, who’s got issues of her own. Criminal Mischief takes a humorous look at love and sex, family and forgiveness and crime and punishment.
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Happily married Philip and Chloe want all of their friends and family to be as well-coupled as they are, especially Phil’s psychotic brother, Ric, and Chloe’s commitment-shy best friend, Gabrielle. The match begins on a breezy note, but the darker reasons that Ric and Gabrielle have resisted coupledom won’t be going away. Despite Philip and Chloe’s belated horror that they started this, Ric and Gabrielle go down a road of mutual fascination, culminating in a proposal that courts all kinds of bad luck.
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Cody has exploded a van in Louisville, killing himself and five other people. Jen, his sister, returns home to comfort their parents. That night, she encounters Cody’s ghost and finds that she has a second chance to make him see reason. Can Jen talk her brother out of his conspiracy theory? Can she help her parents heal? How does anyone move forward from such an unimaginable tragedy?
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Eating Blackberries follows Elizabeth Ashcroft and her son, Jackson, during a heat wave that has led to an early fire season and a bumper crop of wild blackberries in the backyard. When her ex, Paul, and his new wife, Sofía, pay a surprise visit, civil discourse turns into a gritty fight. Four months later, earthquakes threaten as relationships heave, break and realign in surprising ways, giving Elizabeth and an unexpected character the strength to move on.
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It’s 1951, and perhaps what is the worst winter storm in Tennessee’s history is burying the state under snow and ice. As the storm rages, Bertha and Hank, an older white couple, huddle in their shuttered barbecue restaurant when a young interracial couple enter. Bertha and Hank’s empathy is put to the test when a deputy sheriff arrives, hunting for something—or someone.
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Ending years of self-exile following the death of his wife, semi-famous poet Derby Walters accepts a housesitting invitation for a Manhattan co-op. Wanting to slip back into society slowly, Derby is thwarted by an inquisitive neighbor, her pushy mother, the co-op board and a determined lawyer. While his hopes for privacy fail, one infuriating exception forces him to recognize that happiness is often a matter of recognizing the potential of breaking a few plates.
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