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I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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Frankenstein by Bo List is a very good script. We had near sell-out crowds with our production.

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p3838/Frankenstein-(List)/product_info.html

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John Perry
Drama Instructor
Atherton High School
Louisville KY

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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Look up Ken Ludwigs work on Samuel French, he has a good treasure island and a good three musketeers.

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Alan Strait
Teacher
CCSD
Henderson NV

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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We did Perseus Bayou by Mary Hall Surface, with Dramatic Publishing.  It is the story of Perseus based in the bayou of Louisiana.  Absolutely fantastic musical! Music and Costume possibilities are just Beautiful! And stays true to the original myth pretty well. We won the state GHSA One Act Play with it.

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Analiese Hamm
ECHS Drama Director
Lake Park GA

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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I just finished "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" adapted by Tim Kelly and published by Dramatic. It is a good play with a large cast, though technically challenging (Many scene changes). My kids did it well, and most of them took some historical knowledge away.

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Ellen Di Filippo
Tracy CA

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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I have an adaption of Frankenstein that I wrote for my students--modernized, no period costumes, simple set.  If you're interested, message me.  I also have one of Dracula that I wrote a few years ago that is in period.   

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Jennifer Miguel
Franklin VA

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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Thank you all for the suggestions!  I appreciate your recommendations.  Does anyone have any based on historical events?

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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Ten November is a show about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and there is always Anne Frank?

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Thank you all for the suggestions!  I appreciate your recommendations.  Does anyone have any based on historical events?

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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I am looking for something similar and I just found Rosie the Riveter.

Eldridge Plays & Musicals

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There are also a few different versions of A Tale of Two Cities at Dramatic Publishing. 

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1922/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-(Hartford-version)/product_info.html

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Sarah Mahoney
Theatre Teacher
Lower Canada College
Montreal QC

Original Message:
Sent: 03-19-2016 07:11
From: Elisabeth Ledwell
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

Ten November is a show about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and there is always Anne Frank?

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Everyone should check out the plays of Laura Lundgren Smith. She's a Texas playwright and her plays have been doing very well in the Texas one-act play competition (which is the largest one-act and probably most competitive one-act play contest in the world). I usually see her shows advancing three or four rounds, which is very hard to do!

All her work is ensemble-heavy, historical drama. She has three published through Salmon Publishing, and another play coming soon.

salmonpoetry.com | The Shape of the Grave by Laura Lundgren Smith

salmonpoetry.com | Sending Down the Sparrows by Laura Lundgren Smith

salmonpoetry.com | Digging Up The Boys by Laura Lundgren Smith

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Don Zolidis
Cedar Park TX

Original Message:
Sent: 03-18-2016 12:18
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

Thank you all for the suggestions!  I appreciate your recommendations.  Does anyone have any based on historical events?

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA

Jessica, take a look at these four plays by Emily Mann: 

"The first major collection by playwright Emily Mann contains four powerful docudramas. Based on extensive interviews of real people’s experiences, these plays explore various moral issues and questions that still resonate in America today.

Annulla: An Autobiography is a solo piece featuring the reflections of an elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by pretending to by Aryan. Jerry Talmer of the New York Post calls Annulla “one bangup 90 minutes of theatre…I don’t know when I’ve been stimulated as much by anything on the living stage.”

Still Life is composed of interviews with a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, the pregnant wife he physically and emotionally abuses, and the mistress who finds herself entranced by his passion and violence. This Obie Award-winning play is “a powerful affair, full of passion and viability…Mann offers no easy answers or pat solutions, she simply invites us into these three characters' lives” ( Los Angeles Times).

Execution of Justice follows the trial of the former policeman who shot San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. Called “thought-provoking…a taut courtroom drama” ( New York Times), Execution of Justice “is theatre reasserting its claim on the country’s moral conscience” ( Washington Post).

Greensboro: A Requiem is “a particularly all-American tragedy” ( New York Times) as Mann interviews those involved in the largely unreported 1979 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Greensboro police force, and FBI. Forbes calls Greensboro “a provocation, a potent exposé of the ‘less-than-human thing’ which fuels the politics of hate and injustice in America.” 

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JERF
John E R Friedenberg
Director Of Theatre
Wake Forest University Dept of Theatre & Dance
Winston-salem NC

Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2016 13:16
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Plays Based on Famous Literature or History?

I'm looking for plays for next year that are based on famous literature or history.  Examples being an adaptation of "Frankenstein" or the show "Radium Girls."  Preferably shows with casts over 10!  I had the idea "Three Musketeers" but am not sure of a good version.  

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton MA
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