The Five Pound Sack

The Five Pound Sack

The Five Pound Sack

The Five Pound Sack

Overview

Being teen parents is never easy, but when it's parents to a five pound sack of flour it is even more fraught with trouble. Cindy's project for Family Living class is to treat a sack of flour as if it were her child. The "father" is Chuck, "Metal-Is-My-Life" Shickman, who would rather die than take a sack of flour in a diaper to his Advanced Remedial English class. Bribes, threats, brownies, Twinkies, and a twisted kidnaping plot are employed. Everyone learns something about parenting and each other.

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Details

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Cast Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Authors

James Rayfield

James Rayfield has been a theatre educator for over thirty years and has published eight plays for the high school audience which are produced all across the country. Two of these plays, The Five Pound Sack and I Hate Mothers are published by Samuel French. He is currently th ...
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