http://www.vailplays.co.uk Vailplays.co.uk - One-act stageplays by Alexander Vail: "Socially Serviced"; "The Moirai"; "Broadway Baby"
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"frighteningly realistic" – Fiona Dalton
“a parent’s worst nightmare brought vividly to life” – Jane Amos-Davidson
(2/3 females; 1 male. Single set, divided into three rooms)
CHARACTERS:
STEVE
aged 29, Beatrice’s fatherANNA
aged 28. Beatrice’s motherBEATRICE
aged 5. Must seem to have a physical presence on stage, but is never actually seen.SHELLEY
aged 28. Anna’s best friend
In this intense one act play (running time approx. 45 minutes), Anna and Steve are at the beginning of yet another normal and fun-packed family weekend at home, on an ordinary Saturday morning, when their lives are thrown into turmoil with a single letter from the local council’s Social Services department, implying that their five year-old daughter Beatrice may be at risk of abuse.
As they consider the implications of this, they have to close ranks and pull together as a family, if they are going to survive the purgatory of not knowing whether Beatrice has already been abused, or by whom. For the longest forty-eight hours of their lives, they wait to speak to the Social Services officer who wrote the letter, unaware as to whether or not they are being accused of harming their own daughter.
Sadly, this is based on a true story.
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(3 women. One set)
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CHARACTERS
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(1 woman, 1 man. No set required, although a piano is necessary)
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CHARACTERS
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