Plays by Brook North
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FULL LENGTH PLAYS
This Doesn't End Well
This script is an evening of short plays selected from the below around the theme. The plays that appear in TDEW are: Meta, Misplaced, Information, Inside Job, Lunch Break, Clover, Railbirds and The Stream.
TEN(ish) MINUTE PLAYS
All plays are about 10 minutes except “Interrogation” and "Inside Job" which are about 15.
A Gift from God
4 actors - 2M, 1F, 1 of any gender. Comedy.
A paleolithic man and woman appeal to God to bring food to their starving village.
Back in the School
2 actors – 1M, 1F
Are school reunions just for getting it on? And is that so wrong?
Birthday
4 actors - 1M, 1F, 2 any gender. Drama.
The celebration of a friends birthday is interrupted by an unhappy father.
Clover
5 actors, any gender. Comedy.
Zarmaz and Gargadon are captured by huge ape-like creatures on their first away mission to a planet called “Earth.” (Produced under the title "First Contact" at Diez Minutos in Mexico)
Information
2 actors – 1M, 1F, Drama
No means no.
Inside Job
3 actors – 1M, two of any gender. Drama.
An underground poker game is robbed, but by whom?
Interrogation
4 actors – 1 M (must play an Egyptian Coptic), 3 of any gender. Satire.
It's important to give terrorists fair trials as long as we're sure they will be convicted.
Lunch Break
6 actors – 1M, 1F, 4 of any gender. Dark Comedy.
Atypical day in an office near you.
Misplaced
3 actors - 1M, 1F, 1 of any gender. Comedy.
Morton Hornwoggle and his long suffering graduate assistant find the site of an ancient temple. Maybe.
The New Wizards
3 Actors – 2M, 1F (but flexible). Comedy
You've graduated. Now what?
Open the Box
3 actors - 1M, 1F, 1 of any gender. Dramedy.
That conversation where you're either getting back together or breaking up...
Peanut Man
3-8 Actors – 1M, 1F, 1-6 (or more) any gender. Drama
Historical play about Jesse Littleton Broyles aka “Raleigh's Peanut Man.” Commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre and Oakwood Cemetery.
Point of No Return
3 Actors - 2M, 1F. Drama
Historical play based on the "Miracle at Niagara" in 1960. Commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre and Oakwood Cemetery.
Polite Society
2 Actors – 1M, 1F. Drama
Historical play based on the murder of Ludlow Skinner by Earnest Haywood on Fayetteville St in Raleigh, February 22, 1903. Commissioned by Burning Coal Theatre and Oakwood Cemetery.
Railbirds
3 actors - 2M, 1F, Drama.
At the horse track, sometimes you need a long shot to come in.
The Stream
3 actors - 2M, 1F, Drama.
A short play about love, death, and letting go.
UPSIE
3 actors – 3M, Satire.
During the cold war, only bombs could make us safe.
THREE MINUTE PLAYS
Dare You
2 Actors – 2F Drama
Take the leap.
Gallery
2 Actors – 1M, 1F. Comedy
What is Art?
Meta
3 Actors – Any gender
Never write a play about writing a play.
Victory
4 Actors – 2M, 2F. Drama
Isn't it great?