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Softy

By John O'Brien.

Product Code: S94000

One-act Play

Drama

Cast size: 2m., 3w. (extras optional.)


Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available


Rights and availability

This title can be licensed and sold throughout the World.

* 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.

$9.95
In Stock

Min. Royalty Rate: $50.00/perf

Synopsis

This play from John O'Brien deals with a terrible problem of today—the acts of terrorism against innocents which the terrorists perceive as justified by what they hope to achieve. In this play a young woman is recruited for such a purpose, and in a few sentences the author describes the resulting play: "Softy is a 30-minute ticking time bomb. Some people choose to suffer harm rather than inflict it. Softy is such a person. She has the best of all reasons to seek vengeance, but at the moment of truth, she chooses to die rather than kill. Not for the weak of heart."

Notes

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Details

  • Status In stock
  • Type of Show One-act Play
  • Product Code S94000
  • Minimum Cast Size 5
  • Pages of Dialogue 13
  • Min. Royalty Rate $50.00/perf
  • Approx. Run Time 20 min
  • Staging Area staging.

Categories

  • Target Audience High School | College and Adult
  • Performing Group High School
  • Genre Drama
  • ISBN(13) 9780871290984

* 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.

Customer Reviews

Softy is a story that personalizes a terrorist act, bringing us into the lives of both victims and perpetrator in such a way that we truly care for all involved. It is a thought-provoking piece about human relationships, revenge, hopelessness and where each one of us "draws the line." With humor, love, sadness and kindness, we enter a world we usually only hear about and too often depersonalize.

Leslie Thomas, Whitefish High School, Whitefish, Mont.

A solid one-act for beginning to advanced actors.

Shelly Riggs, Logan High School, Logan, Ohio

A very moving, powerful piece relevant to what's happening in the world today.

Alison O'Toole, Prince Rupert Secondary School, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada