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If Susan Smith Could Talk

  • Elaine Romero
  • Short Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573633676

If Susan Smith Could Talk tells the story of a mother appealing her death sentence to a court room after drowning her children in the family car.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 10 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
If Susan Smith Could Talk tells the story of a mother appealing her death sentence to a court room after drowning her children in the family car.

Premiere Production: If Susan Smith Could Talk was first workshopped and performed in November 1995 in a non-equity production at the Planet Earth Multi-Cultural Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona. It was directed by Rick Tobin.
  • Casting: 1M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Non-Traditional casting

  • SUSAN SMITH - the young South Carolina mother who drowned her two children in the family car
    CARRIE - a judge
    STEPH - Susan's white, feminist defence attorney
    JERRY - a male African-American prosecuting attorney
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    If Susan Smith Could Talk tells the story of a mother appealing her death sentence to a court room after drowning her children in the family car.

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