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Bellweather

  • Steve Yockey
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573706226

"Audacious, entertaining and chilling, Steve Yockey's Bellweather goes where few plays dare to tread [...] Was it funny? Scary? Moving? Yes. Bellweather is, in short, fantastic. In every sense of the word."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Bellweather was a nice, safe place to live. Bad things didn't happen there. That was until six-year-old Amy Draft went missing. As the investigation progresses, speculation in the media and the neighborhood turns on Amy's parents, Alan and Jackie Draft. But the young girl's disappearance is not what it seems, and is only a glimpse of what lurks below the community's perfection.
REVIEWS:

"Where Yockey at first seems to be probing the importance of the levels of attention we pay to our mates, children and associates, as well as satirizing the ways in which sensation-of-the-week news coverage degrades social discourse, the turn of events leads to a pointed choice between personal and social responsibilities."

 SF Gate

"Audacious, entertaining and chilling, Steve Yockey's Bellweather goes where few plays dare to tread [...] Was it funny? Scary? Moving? Yes. Bellweather is, in short, fantastic. In every sense of the word."

 Theatre Dogs

"With Yockey, nothing is as it seems, and we quickly find ourselves sliding pell-mell from a staid suburban landscape into paranormal regions where reality is anything but."

 Stage and Cinema

"Bellweather is a compelling concoction of mystery, horror, surrealism and tragedy, with a dash of laughter."

 Marinscope

Premiere Production: Bellweather premiered at Marin Theatre Company under the direction of Ryan Rilette in October, 2011.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

  • ALAN DRAFT - a young father
    JACKIE DRAFT - a young mother
    MADDY SCHAFER - a single mother
    NEIGHBOR 2 & REPORTER 2 - woman
    NEIGHBOR 3 & REPORTER 3 - woman
    NEIGHBOR 4 & REPORTER 1 - woman
    NEIGHBOR 5 & DETECTIVE 1 - man
    NEIGHBOR 6 & DETECTIVE 2 & "MAN IN THE DARK OVERCOAT" - man
    "AMY" - an idea of a young woman
    THE DOLL - a mechanical "woman"

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    Bellweather was a nice, safe place to live. Bad things didn't happen there. That was until six-year-old Amy Draft went missing. As the investigation progresses, speculation in the media and the neighborhood turns on Amy's parents, Alan and Jackie Draft. But the young girl's disappearance is not what it seems, and is only a glimpse of what lurks below the community's perfection.

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