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Bright. Apple. Crush.

Steve Yockey

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10 Minute Play, Dark Comedy

2m, 1f

ISBN: 9780573660238

Winner! Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
Three monologues intermingle, each character explains what drove them to murder.

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Description | Characters | Rental Materials | Author | Reviews

$9.95

Qty: Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 32nd Series

Minimum Fee: $45 per performance

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Description

10 Minute Play

Dark Comedy

10 minutes

Time Period - Contemporary

FEATURES / CONTAINS

No intermission

Monologues

Bare Stage/Simple Set

Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes

CAUTIONS

Drugs, Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language, Smoking

THEMES

Betrayal, Death, Love, Marriage,

TARGET AUDIENCE

Adult

PERFORMANCE GROUP

College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Large Stage, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups

RECOGNITION / AWARDS

Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival,

Winner! Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival

Three monologues intermingle, each character explains what drove them to murder. One man set fire to his house after finding his wife cheating on him in their bed. A woman (a teacher) gives poison apples to all of her students because she just can’t stand them anymore. Another man, physically abused by his lover, ultimately crushes his head with his boot.

Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 32nd Series.

Characters

CASTING

2m, 1f

CASTING ATTRIBUTES

Ensemble cast

CHORUS SIZE

No Chorus

ETHAN - early 20s; charismatic; loose. He has cigarettes, a lighter and an easy calmness about him.
NANCY - early 20s; put together; stoic. She has an apple but guards it from the audience.
DAN - early 20s; quiet; nervous; sweet. He is dressed stylishly and wears a pair of heavy boots. He has a somewhat-healed black eye.

Rental Materials

MUSICAL STYLE

N/A (Not a musical)

VOCAL DEMANDS

N/A (Not a musical)

Author

Steve Yockey

Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles based writer with work produced throughout the country and in Asia. afterlife: a ghost story, Large Animal Games, Octopus, CARTOON, subculture (collected short plays) and very still & hard to see are published & available from Samuel French. Last season: afterlife: a ghost story co-world premiered at Southern Rep in New Orleans (dir. Aimee Hayes) and New Rep in Boston ... view full profile