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Crayfish

Short Play, Dark Comedy  /  2w

NOTICE: Please be advised, this title is being made available now in manuscript form prior to its publication.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
Anna sits in the kitchen late at night while the clock ticks and holds an eerie conversation with her dead grandmother Mabel about her fatal obsession with crayfish as an out of tune piano plays "Vienna Blood." One of nine short plays about Anna and her relationship with the writer whose work she's translating, each of whom may be done in conjunction with any or all of the others.

Published in The Zoar Plays.

  • Time Period 1990s
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No intermission
  • Duration 10 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $65 per performance

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Authors

Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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