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Plays About Family Roles

Family members play a role they either adopt or is forced upon them. Family roles include the superhero, the leader, the caretaker, the scapegoat and the joker.  Discover plays where family roles are assumed, disputed and fought for.

Plays about family roles are fertile grounds for scenes of teen rebellion against authority of a mother or father. Family roles shape how we interact with each other in the family system and theatre can shine a light on characters with a family role they want to change.

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    The Hidden Stream

    $13.70 – $16.97
    A Poetry Collection For Spoken Word Theater. A moving, insightful autobiography combining poetry and reflection reveals the emerging life and art of a poet. Can be used selectively to construct short one-act plays. The poems are superb for spoken word theater, solo acting scripts, one-person shows, monologue plays scripts. See the script extract.
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  • The Hypochondriac

    $7.97 – $75.00
    A one-act, satirical caricature on the practice of medicine, Human nature is revealed and pilloried in this comedy which skillfully skewers the medical profession, a narcissistic patient, and his conniving wife. The Hypochondriac (also known as The Imaginary Invalid) is as germane today as it was in Moliere's France. Easy to produce on stage or in a classroom as reader's theater. (We have special copying rates for classroom use.)
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  • The Legacy of an Invisible Father

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “The Legacy of an Invisible Father” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series “Legacy of a Father.” The short play highlights one woman’s futile attempt to locate a father through a private investigator. Angela’s lifelong loss of a father figure is further complicated by her biracial identity and her struggles with an unloving mother. Within the script, Angela must come to the terms that fate hadn’t been cruel to her at all, that maybe the absence of her father was the heavens working in her favor.
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  • The Pinch Hitter

    $8.00 – $39.79
    A one-act family comedy for 5 actors. A woman is pushed to the limits by the needs of her family. Her husband is overwhelmed by a new business venture, two of her children are self-absorbed, and her eldest son copes, with her help, with mild mental retardation. What will they do when she goes on strike? Great for middle school, high school, community theater,  school competitions, and groups for women. Downloadable, printable PDF available.
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  • The Trunk

    $8.95 – $48.00
    A man is about to board a mysterious train when he is stopped because of the size of his luggage. What is in his trunk that he is so reluctant to part with? And where is the train going? In this 15-minute play, L. Elizabeth Powers bears witness to the fact that it's never too late to take a different path.
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  • The Unmasking of Yetta Breen

    $13.70 – $155.00
    A full-length touching and funny 'dramedy' by Mickey Coburn, about a newly widowed woman and her changing relationships with her grown children. Yetta's family expect her to remain 'mama': dependent and indecisive but Yetta has ideas of her own. After years of marriage, she wants to live for herself. But when the suitors begin to appear!!!! Will Yetta be able to emancipate herself from the role of "Jewish Mother"? Even if her new beau is the "likker" salesman? Great for community and regional theaters. Downloadable PDF available.
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  • Unlocked Doors

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “Unlocked Doors” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series, “Legacy of a Father" , and touches on the impact of incest for one woman. Christine, a wife and mother in her thirties, is losing her faith and has hit an emotional wall due to the past sexual abuse of her father. Decades after the abuse, Christine is challenged to aggressively take back the control robbed from her as a child.
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  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “Wrong Place, Wrong Time” is another 10-minute short in Monique Franz play series, “Legacy of a Father.” The script touches on the soil on which many troubled inner-city youth grow, especially those without the presence of a quality father figure. The script highlights the lack of choices that men of urban contexts are presented with, from birth until adulthood.
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