One Day at the Zoo
Product Code: O58000
One-act Play
Cast size: 3m., 3w. (2 offstage voices.)
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Synopsis
At first, the Ridgeland's home seems rather drab and unimaginative. But we soon learn that the living space we see isn't so much their home as their cage. Glenn, Monica and their teenage children, Becky and Ryan, are not merely prisoners; they are zoo animals—the featured specimens of the Earth Family Natural Habitat Display and Anthropological Exposition, the star attraction of the Intergalactic Zoo, located some 450 million light-years from Earth. On this particular day, the Ridgelands agree to switch parts for the next show. What starts out as great fun soon turns into a startling revelation and takes a menacing turn when they are caught. This play raises powerful questions about what it means to be a family, being an individual in a family, and the importance of keeping a family together.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show One-act Play
- Product Code O58000
- Minimum Cast Size 8
- Pages of Dialogue 47
- Min. Royalty Rate $40.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 45 min
- Staging One int. set.
Categories
- ISBN(13) 9780871297419
Customer Reviews
The play is funny, charming and, ultimately, heartwarming and affirmational. Next week we enter competition, and I think we have a winner. You don't have to spend much time with young people to realize just how critically important family, and the commitment to being a family, is É even if you have to make a decision to adopt your family, as Rita and Sam do. For, as this play reveals, it is commitment that makes a family a supportive, sustaining and functiioning unit, not biology or happenstance. And that is what drew me to this play. I feel good about it in every way possible.
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Jeff Quenneville, St. Francis Xavier Secondary, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada