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You Cannot Undo This Action
Length: 100-120 minutesCast Size: 16-30+ actors (suggested casting: 7F, 5M, 10 any)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
The populations of two high schools are thrown into disarray after a careless social media post leads to real life tragedy. Some of the students are jolted into fear as they reckon with how deep and wide their vulnerabilities have become in our hyper-connected world, while others wrestle with their culpability in the incident. Meanwhile those most affected seek a path toward justice, but how far w... -
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Length: 80-90 minutesCast Size: 9-25 actors (suggested casting: 8F, 8M)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
While wandering Worcester, England in 1943, a teenage boy happened upon the skeleton of an unidentified woman inside the trunk of a large tree. An investigation commenced to determine who the woman was and how she died, but it raised more questions than it answered. Was she a spy? Was she a prostitute? Had she been part of an occult ritual? Theories abounded, but no definitive answers emerged. The... -
Muddy Death and Strudel
Length: 10 minutesCast Size: 3 actors (1F 2M)Genre: ComedySynopsis:
A gentleman with a terminal illness and an affinity for Shakespeare has hired a hitman to end his life early, and poetically, with a death found in one of the Bard's works. The question is, which death to choose? He can take his pick, as long as it doesn't involve his wife's curtains... This play is part of the short play collection Ten(ish): Comedies. -
Capsule
Length: 10 minutesCast Size: 3 actors (2M, 1 any)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
When a beloved park is scheduled to become a parking lot, three friends are forced to dig up their time capsule a bit earlier than they had planned. What they dig up about their shared past will change them all forever. This play is part of the short play collection Ten(ish): Horror. -
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Length: 10 - 15 minutesCast Size: 5-6 actors (suggested casting: 6F)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
You never quite know what you're getting when you buy an old house. The past may still echo within its walls. For Deirdre, who is on the run from her own past, a new home means an escape, but it also comes with some unexpected inhabitants. This play is part of the short play collection Ten(ish): Horror. -
Trust Fall
Length: 10 minutesCast Size: 3 actors (3F)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
Jackie hasn’t been the same since her sister Sadie died. Luckily, Dani has been there to guide her through her grief. But when Jackie leads Dani to the maw of a cave on the one year anniversary of Sadie’s death, this friendship will be pushed to the limit as they step further and further into the darkness. This play is part of the short play collection Ten(ish): Horror. -
Ten(ish): Horror
Length: Ten 10-Minute PlaysCast Size: Varies by TitleGenre: DramaSynopsis:
It's time for tales of terror to see their day onstage. From horrifying creatures, to long-buried secrets, to the dark visions in your own mirror, nightmares await in Ten(ish): Horror, an anthology of short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights working today. Ten(ish): Horror is edited by Brendan Conheady and features the following short plays: Trust... -
Yellow Wallpaper
Length: 35-45 minutesCast Size: 6-30+ actors (suggested casting: 2M, 10F)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
When Eleanor stumbles upon a hidden diary, she unlocks a family secret - and finds that danger lives closer to home than she possibly could have imagined. An ensemble of trapped spirits cracks open the door between generations in a theatrical adaptation that wraps the classic psychological horror story The Yellow Wallpaper in a Hitchcockian thriller. -
Pearl
Length: 35-40 minutesCast Size: 15-30 actors (suggested cast, 11F, 4 M)Genre: DramaSynopsis:
Nineteen-year-old Pearl is tethered to two ghosts: One is her sister, the other a stranger. Both girls are determined to help Pearl discover the truth about what happened to them, unspoken by the haunted women still living in the Monroe estate. But time is running out before Pearl's abusive father will force her to marry a neighboring landowner's son. Can Pearl unravel the generations of trauma in...
