 | | eScript Perusal: $1.99 | | eScript Package: $20.00 (Includes print rights for cast and crew) | | First Performance Royalty: $20.00 | | Each Additional Performance Royalty: $20.00 | | Video Rights: $10.00 | | | Type: One Act Play | | Genre: Drama | | Theme: Illness | | Running Time: 45 minutes | | Speaking Cast: 5 females, 2 males, 7 total cast | | Flexibility: 0-20 extras | | ISBN: 978-1-61588-303-5 |
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| | PRODUCTIONS | | | | | Synopsis | | In the aftermath of her mother’s death from breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Jenna must confront and accept her loss, her emotional pain, her feelings of betrayal, her own mortality, and her feelings of guilt for not wanting to be like her mother.
She must confront reality, but her means of coping leave much to be desired. She constantly finds herself lost in past memories or in fantasies of alternate futures. She remembers the time when her mother, Jackie, and her aunt, Susan, were making pink ribbons at the kitchen table. And she fantasizes about a future with Nick, the seemingly untouchable new boy at school. She remembers her mother and father, Carl, discussing cancer.
Between these episodes, Jenna wanders through the haze of reality in conversations with Carl, Aunt Susan, and her best friend Samantha. Although she never thought she could be the kind of selfless crusader her mother was, her memories and fantasies soon bring her to accept that she cannot change or run away from her past.
Her choice to put on the pink ribbon her mother gave her and participate in a breast cancer walk begins the process of coping with her mother’s death and the legacy of this disease in a positive and healthy manner, meeting reality and the future head on with “no energy wasted.”
In the end, Jenna discovers that Nick’s mother is a survivor of the disease as the three of them meet for the first time at the walk. | | | Details: | | ISBN: 978-1-61588-303-5 |
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