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Escalator

Short Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m, 1girl(s)

Tanner Heath

Published in the collection Thespian Playworks 2015

Escalator

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m, 1girl(s)
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary

A group of individuals in mall get stuck on a broken escalator. Only interested in their own lives and technology, tensions rise as they try to find the best way off of the escalator. It isn't until they are able to band together against an snooty shopper by throwing her into a foutain that they are able to find a way to not only get off the escalator, but open up to the people around them.

Published in the collection Thespian Playworks 2015

History

Escalator premiered at the Thespian Festival in June 2015 under the direction of William Myatt.

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Performing Groups
CHARACTER 1 – Teenage girl
CHARACTER 2 – Teenage boy
CHARACTER 3 – Young girl
CHARACTER 4 – Man in his mid-thirties
CHARACTER 5 – Woman in her twenties
CHARACTER 6 – Man in his twenties
CHARACTER 7 – Woman in her early forties
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A busy mall with an escalator at the center.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Duration 30 minutes

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Tanner Heath

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