Click to Purchase this Play on Amazon Pretty Pieces is a powerful one act play about a young man and a young woman who are trapped on the fringes of society in a run-down apartment. They are brother and sister and something horrible happened to them a long time ago. Because of what happened to them, their relationship is doomed. The sister is trying to fit the pieces of their lives together, to figure out what happened to them, to figure out why they are the way that they are. She finds some old pictures and an old report card but these clues are not enough for her to figure out the true horror of their past. The young man tries to forget but he can't. He copes by using drugs and selling his body. The young woman copes by building a psychological and emotional cage which traps her in the apartment. To add fuel to the emotional fire, they are being evicted. The young man has a chance at happiness. He thinks he has found a way out. He is going to leave his sister and move in w...
Click to Purchase this play on Amazon Ghost of the Tree is a powerful and emotionally charged story of seven young women in a cursed family tree. The play opens with a pregnant homeless girl. She has returned to the family home to find it deserted. She is in desperate circumstances. Outside, the ghostly tree which has clung to the side of the house for over a hundred years is finally giving up its life. The play takes us on a journey into the past to uncover the family secrets, the secrets of mothers and daughters, to the beginning, when a terrible crime was committed. This play can be cast for two to eight women. It can easily be adapted as a one-woman play..
Purchase Til the Boys Come Home on Amazon.com Til The Boys Come Home is a moving, action-packed Canadian play, about small-town teenage boys and girls whose lives are torn apart by the Second World War. It is told through the eyes of Will. He is probably about forty years old and married with teenage kids of his own. He finds an old photograph that he took years ago in the small town he grew up in. It is a photograph of his friends when he was just a teenager, just before the war. In this picture, they have their whole lives ahead of them. His childhood sweetheart is in the picture and so is his best friend. It is the last time they would all be together. As he talks, the photo comes to life and the audience is taken on a trip into the past. From that small town restaurant of hopes and dreams, to the chilling barracks scenes where one of his lifelong friends is betrayed, to the bittersweet last dance at the restaurant where the boys say goodbye to the girls, some for the last ti...
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