Secrets
By Joanna H. Kraus.
Product Code: SS3000
Full-length Play
Drama
Cast size: 1m., 4w.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.
Synopsis
They always planned to tell Lisa she was adopted. Maybe when she was six. Maybe when she was more emotionally mature. Maybe … Suddenly the 13-year-old gets a phone call out of the blue: "Hello, I'm your mother." As the long-kept secret comes tumbling out, the once-happy household is torn apart by anger, resentment, and jealousy. Micki, Lisa's birth mother, is an aging flower child, and Lisa is drawn to the romance of her gypsy lifestyle and her protest marches to save the trees, all the more glamorous because they are forbidden. Secretly, Lisa meets with her mother and ends up joining the protesters and the march, and, unwittingly, gets caught up in the violence that follows. The teens who worked on Secrets in its development found it spoke not only to the children of adoption but also to all of them often baffled and upset by the unspoken dynamics of family relationships.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code SS3000
- Minimum Cast Size 5
- Pages of Dialogue 28
- Min. Royalty Rate $85.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 60 min
- Staging Area staging.
Categories
- Target Audience Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
- Genre Drama
Customer Reviews
Secrets claims no heroes nor indicts any villains but simply looks at real people dealing with real problems—people who will make you laugh, cry and think and who, ultimately, will attest to the resiliency of young people.
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Scott Laughead, Director of Education, Periwinkle National Theatre