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Lamp Post

Short Play, Dark Comedy  /  1w, 1m

A part of the collection Mata Hari and Other Plays .

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Near a college campus in the late 1970s Ben, a graduate student, is awakened in the middle of the night by a stranger pounding on his door, a confused and troubled young woman who mistakenly believes that his apartment is the Crisis Center. He makes the mistake of letting her in, and then, against his will, is forced to listen to her increasingly frenzied story about how she can make street lamps go out and kill peacocks with her mind. She thinks somebody's following her, and that that J. Edgar Hoover is putting chemicals in the water and listening in on her conversations. In the course of their funny and increasingly alarming encounter, Ben discovers that he might be the Crisis Center after all. A good showcase for two young actors.

BEN - late twenties
BRITTANY - twenties

  • Time Period 1970s
  • Setting An upstairs apartment in a Midwestern college town in the late 1970s.

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £70 per performance
    £30 per play individually
    Plus VAT when applicable

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Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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