 | | eScript Perusal: $1.99 | | eScript Package: $30.00 (Includes print rights for cast and crew) | | First Performance Royalty: $35.00 | | Each Additional Performance Royalty: $35.00 | | Video Rights: $20.00 | | | Type: Full Length Play | | Genre: Drama | | Theme: Abuse | | Running Time: 70 minutes | | Speaking Cast: 2 females, 2 total cast | | ISBN: 978-1-61588-076-8 | | Title Includes: Mature Theme |
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| | SCRIPT PREVIEW PRODUCTIONS | | | | | Recent Productions: | | Garey High School - Pomona, CA | | Winthrop University Dept. of Theatre and Dance - Rock Hill, SC | | | | | | Synopsis | | Mona’s grown daughter, Alice, has come home for a visit.
Only this isn’t a particularly joyful reunion, for Alice has just been paroled. Her crime? Felony child abuse. To quiet her newborn, Alice had fallen into the habit of giving the baby whiskey. One night the child fell into a coma, and, fearing the infant was dead, Alice wrapped him in newspapers and hid him in the trash. Fortunately a neighbor had been watching and saved the baby’s life.
Now Alice must somehow repair her own life. She and Mona have never had a loving relationship, and the incident with the baby has made Mona dislike her own child even more. She tries, without success, to get Alice out of town on the bus. She especially doesn’t want her “jailbird daughter” around when she celebrates her fifty-fifth birthday to which she has invited some much-needed friends.
Alice finally begs Mona for help in rebuilding her life. But the nervous, bitter mother shies away in terror. She knows the secrets that underlie this tense relationship--secrets she and Alice are forced to confront before either can take one more step into the future. | | | Details: | | ISBN: 978-1-61588-076-8 | | Mature Theme |
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