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“If something’s ‘talking’ and ‘intelligent’ that doesn’t much change how it’s going to taste.”

“It’s probably a lot like NASCAR, Edna, only slower, and with a fish.”
ALIEN FISH by Bradley Walton

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Looking for a fast-paced, funny, all-ages show? Look no further than this one-act play about a three-tailed alien fish who winds up on Earth, surrounded by people who want to eat him!

Alien Fish is a fun-filled mini-epic that spans the cosmos from the far reaches of space to the stockroom of Billy’s Discount Fishing Supplies and offers off-the-wall characters that will be enjoyed by your actors and audiences alike.

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FREE eScript of the Week

ALIEN FISH - by B. Walton

Cyan is an alien fish who swims through outer space. Irving is a friendly space tourist in a personal flying saucer that looks a lot like an inner tube. When they both get sucked through a wormhole into a fishing supply store, Irving finds himself trying to keep the friendly but not-too-bright Cyan from winding up as an order of fish sticks on the plates of the store owner, his daughter, and an alien... read more

“English is quite a sticky wicket of a language to master!"
GRAPPLING WITH GRAMMAR: A COLLECTION OF TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
By Donna Latham

Hear a free audio preview of GRAPPLING WITH GRAMMAR: A COLLECTION OF TEN-MINUTE PLAYS

GRAPPLING WITH GRAMMAR offers innovative opportunities for young actors to rehearse and perform, while polishing English language skills. Join the Stratford family! They rise to the sticky-wicket challenge in this comic series by award-winning playwright Donna Latham. A tightly knit intergenerational family, the Stratfords are an energetic, verbally adept bunch. Together, they tackle familiar language conundrums

The Characters

GRAPPLING WITH GRAMMAR features a cast of six. Jewel, an industrious teen, is a multitalented multi-tasker. She aspires to be the next J.K. Rowling and is currently scribbling a whodunit. Bill, her spontaneous younger brother, is up for anything. Thoroughly living in the moment, he’s consumed these days with teaching Roscoe, the world's most bashful parrot, to talk. They live with their young-at-heart grandparents. Gramps is a retired British brigadier general and lover of history and literature. He’s devoted to Gram, a nurturing soul who whips up new recipes in the kitchen. Add a lovable, loyal talking dog, Addie, to the mix, and the cast is complete.

Grappling With Grammar Shout-outs

“Grappling With Grammar is a delight! Innovative, humorous plays create opportunities to teach kids about adjectives and adverbs, comparatives, double negatives, idioms, onomatopoeia, oxymora, sentences, and more. Kids create memorable characters, hone their comic timing, and flex their acting muscles. They take language to heart.” —C.A. Mauloff, High School English Teacher (retired)

“...An excellent resource that uses ten-minute plays to teach students the basic rules of the English language. Grappling with Grammar, written by Donna Latham, covers adjectives, pronouns, idioms, interjections, and my personal favorite: onomatopoeia. Like other useful drama resources, this series combines humor and characters with each lesson. Students will have fun during each rehearsal/performance, and they will improve their writing skills before they even pick up a pencil!” —Wade Bradford, playwright and author

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		ANGEL TRACKS If everything goes as scheduled, Myra will be the first woman executed in her state. A guardian angel appears in her cell during the final hour before execution. A stirring and challenging script.



		BABBLE Brilliant but arrogant, Jack Brennan can talk his way around any subject. When a teacher he disdains recruits Jack onto the forensics team, Jack drags aboard an underachieving class goofball just for spite. But when the goofball blossoms into a talented impromptu speaker, Jack must find a new way to stir up trouble, and sets out to dethrone the state champion current events...



		THE EDUCATION OF JANET O'MALLEY Even the best students can relate to Janet O'Malley's lament: "Why do I have to know all the stuff they're teaching in school? Do I really need it?" In this hilarious comedy, Janet gets her answer after being hit in the head with a dodge ball. In one wacky dream sequence after another, she learns how the knowledge she thought was useless could actually earn her a million...



		HEADIN' FOR A WEDDIN' Homer Hollowbone is in love with a big-city debutante named Melissa Dugan, whose picture he found in a newspaper that was wrapped around some fish. Pretending to be everything he is not, Homer begins a correspondence with Melissa, telling her that he is a very refined, educated gentleman who lives in a mansion and who will be vacationing in Europe over the summer. Trouble...



		KEEPERS AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA Abby, a young lighthouse keeper, is alone tending her duties when a fierce, unexpected spring storm begins. She is surprised by two men, Mr. Trent and Jack. They are "Moon Cussers." They want two ships, scheduled to return that evening, to wreck so they can lay claim to the goods that wash ashore. Mr. Trent is desperate. He has a dying wife and three children and will do...



		LADIES, SIGH NO MORE Lady Macbeth plays Monopoly with Juliet and shrewish Kate battles Cordelia at Trivial Pursuit. Ophelia cuts out paper flowers, and Desdemona sews handkerchiefs. Who is the mysterious man who seems to be so interested in the fate of these ladies? Is this an Elizabethan ladies club, or a literary loony bin? Only Dr. Wells seems to know for sure as she tries to help some of...



		ONE COLD AFTERNOON Ellie sits with her friends, watching a football game on a cold, fall afternoon. What could be more normal? Slowly, though, Ellie's reality shifts. Despite the Narrator's warnings, she begins to see what her friends cannot: They are all part of a play. What's more, once Ellie's perception has changed, she can never return to her old existence. She must become a narrator...



		ROYAL WOES AND SCANDALOUS CLOTHES The fences are falling down, the cook is reduced to making cream of beak soup, and the King’s Printer has run out of H’s and E’s. (The sign “we love his Highness” is reduced to “We Love is Ignss.”) The oblivious and clothes-loving King is counting on his marriage to Queen Charlotta to save him financially. Unbeknownst to him, Charlotta is marrying him for his money, for she...



		SPIES They've made contact. Exchanged secret codes. Traded top secrets. But Agent 62455 has been tricked. And now, with spies watching spies who are covering spies, 62455 and AABBCC will battle to the death using a spy's most secret and deadly weapon...the stare!



		UNLEASHED A small-town judge presides over the case of a man contesting the citation he received from a female deputy for walking his dog without a leash. As defendant and accuser squabble before the folksy judge, their long-suppressed feelings for each other become unleashed.



		WAITING: AN EXISTENTIAL CRY OF DESPAIR Two people wait for news of loved ones who were working in the World Trade Center on September 11th. In a brief moment of connection, they affirm to each other their humanity amid forces beyond their control.