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Reared

  • John Fitzpatrick
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573115448

Reared is a dark comedy about overcoming family history and fighting for a seat at the table.

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
Eileen has a full time job, a fifteen-year-old daughter with a lot of secrets, a mother in-law who's showing signs of dementia, a baby on the way, and a husband who doesn't want to deal with any of it.

As she tries to clear the way for the new baby, the family push each other's buttons in the way only families know how. There isn't enough room for everybody but no one is leaving without a struggle. Reared is a dark comedy about overcoming family history and fighting for a seat at the table.

  • Casting: 2M, 3F

  • EILEEN - Mid-to-late forties. Originally from Ireland and married to
    STUART - also in his mid-to-late forties, adoptive son of
    NORA - early eighties and also originally from Ireland
    CAITLIN - Stuart and Eileen's fifteen-year-old daughter
    COLIN - a school friend of Caitlin, sixteen
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    Eileen has a full time job, a fifteen-year-old daughter with a lot of secrets, a mother in-law who's showing signs of dementia, a baby on the way, and a husband who doesn't want to deal with any of it.

    As she tries to clear the way for the new baby, the family push each other's buttons in the way only families know how. There isn't enough room for everybody but no one is leaving without a struggle. Reared is a dark comedy about overcoming family history and fighting for a seat at the table.

    $24.95