17 Minutes
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
- 3M, 3F
- ISBN: TRW-12878
17 MINUTES is the length of time Sheriff's Deputy Andy Rubens stood outside of a school while a shooter was inside.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 80 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
17 MINUTES is the length of time Sheriff's Deputy Andy Rubens stood outside of a school while a shooter was inside. The play 17 Minutes explores the communal and residual effects of a shooting through Andy, a man who struggles with his own complicity in the tragedy, and who seeks meaning in the wake of the shooting.
Scripts available through TRW Plays.
REVIEWS:
Scripts available through TRW Plays.
REVIEWS:
"Brilliant... a work of empathy and startling compassion."
Theater Pizzazz
"There’s something about the stark honesty of 17 Minutes... that lends the play a kind of grace. This is an extraordinary piece of theater that should be widely seen."
TheaterScene.net
"Accomplishes what the theatre does best: It presents this issue not as an emotionally fraught intellectual argument, but as a complicated and compassionate human drama."
Talkin' Broadway
Premiere Production:
17 Minutes had its New York premiere at the Barrow Group Theater (Seth Barrish and Lee Brock, Co-Artistic Directors; Robert Serrell, Executive Director), opening on January 22, 2020. It was directed by Seth Barrish.
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 3F
VIRGIL MORRIS - a detective
SAMANTHA RUBENS - Andy's wife
MARY - a sheriff's deputy
DAN - a father
CECILIA - a mother
