The Experiment
Short Play, Drama / 1m or f
If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it?
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Cast Size
1m or fDuration
30 minutesSubgenre
ExperimentalTarget Audience
- Adult
- Teen (Age 14 - 18)
Additional Info
Reviews
"Mark Ravenhill keeps things creepy in his monologue, The Experiment, in which he plays the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator… The story, and the narrator's level of complicity, keeps shifting. Ravenhill asks us to consider which version, if any, might be acceptable, and how much we might be willing to avert our eyes from for the greater good." - Independent
"Crammed with slippery language, it evokes a vortex of atrocity from fairytales to Mengele and Medea." - The Times
Considerations
Performing Groups
- College Theatre / Student
- Shoestring Budget
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Cautions
- Intense Adult Themes
License details
- Minimum Fee: $90 per performance
Production
Details
- Time Period: Contemporary, Present Day, The Future
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Additional Features: No intermission
- Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
Casting
1m or fCast Attributes
- Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
- Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
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Authors
Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill was born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex in 1966. He studied Drama and English at Bristol University. His first play Shopping and Fucking was produced by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre in 1996. Subsequent plays include Faust Is Dead and Handbag (both Actors Touring Company), Some Explicit Pola ...
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