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Dysfunctional Family Play

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Topic: Dysfunctional Family Play

Posted By: JSerio
Subject: Dysfunctional Family Play
Date Posted: 6/08/11 at 3:57pm

Hello,

I am looking for a dysfunctional family play. With a cast size of low teens and under.

Thanks,
Jack

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Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 6/09/11 at 10:15pm

Are you saying you want a show about teenagers?
Or a show that has a cast of 12, 13, 14 people?

If it's the second, there's always "August: Osage County" - about as dysfunctional a group as any you'll see on stage.

If you don't mind adult, surreal there's "Betty's Summer Vacation," or even maybe "Dead Man's Cell Phone."

If you want classics, there's "A Long Day's Into Night" or "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof".

If you want whacked-out comedies, there's "Dearly Departed" and "Sordid Lives".

Posted By: bnk01
Date Posted: 6/17/11 at 9:40am

"Past Curfew" - cast of three, (2F,1M) two of which are teens.
It premiered at the Pacific Resident Theatre last year - powerful drama about a teenage girl coming home late from her first date, and her young, single mom dealing with all her worst fears coming true.
%20http://www.arthurjolly.com/pastcurfew.html - About the play

http://www.shop.nextstagepress.net/product.sc?productId=50&categoryId=4%20 - Link to the publisher

Posted By: David McCall
Date Posted: 6/17/11 at 10:28am

How about a dysfunctional family in a totally dysfunctional village. Perhaps more like crazy. The high school did "Fools" a couple years back, and it was very funny.

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David M

Posted By: Rorgg
Date Posted: 6/17/11 at 11:22am

If you're talking about cast size ... there's a great David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole) play called "Fuddy Meers." Got some semi-obfuscated language issues perhaps, but it's kind of odd, and very funny, and incredibly disfunctional.

Posted By: Ogreking4
Date Posted: 6/17/11 at 3:16pm

You need to read "The Big Five-oh" by Brian Mitchell

Very funny and it deals with a dysfunction...

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