Category: Drama
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“Woe of the World,” a Future Drama by Rachel Joseph
GoatChorus of SufferersMedeaAntigoneSusanMollyLizzieOrestesGaryRodolfoTed At rise: A ritual. Sunrise to sunset. SUFFERERS OH, THE WOE OF THE world is upon us.Oh, the woe of the world is upon. GOAT Do not feast upon my body, no, feast upon my gaze.It’s wicked.It’s selective.It closes the world from itself, it closes the world. Remember my body…
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One-Act Play: “The Actuarials” by A.E. Weisgerber
Characters: Dr. Peng Ripshaw, The Incarcerator Dr. Vernon Stackpole, The Rehabilitator ※, The Regressor Scene: February 2028, Mindcast via The PubPol ClinX Roundtable, Cleveland Ohio, and Davos, Switzerland Ͷ Ͷ Ͷ (Screens flare and flicker) Ripshaw: A diagnosis is called for … Stackpole: Do you mean penal? perhaps remedial? PR: I mean machine-like. Simple computations,…
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Fiction-screenplay Hybrid: “Game in the Sand” by Joe Sacksteder
GAME IN THE SAND They have finished securing Karl to the hood of the Chevy using the collected belts of everyone involved in production. Karl is unsure of many things. If his reflection will be visible in the windshield. If it will be obvious how slowly they’re driving the truck. If he can slip through…
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This Is a Dream, a one act sci-fi screenplay by Success Akpojotor
CLOSE ON: A book is received by a black hand, and ensconces on the decorated table. INSERT. COVER PAGE TIME PILL BY DAVID OYEWOLE BACK TO SCENE The black hand opens the novel’s verso page and inscribes a legible and beautiful autograph across it; and returns it, to the Yoruba woman, in her mid-thirties, who…
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“Storage Failure,” a one-act play by Austin Bunn
YOUNG AUSTIN (seven), backlit, reads a book and crosses the stage to a chair. He is very much not looking where he is going. A silhouette, an outline, a memory. SOUND FX: a swarm of bees, slowly intensifying. AUSTIN (now), in aisle. He wants to tell you something. AUSTIN: That was me. In the backyard…
