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Specter

  • Don Nigro
  • Short Play, Drama, Present Day
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573622076

On a rainy night a young professor drives on a twisted road through the woods near Princeton, swerves into a ditch to avoid a girl in a white dress, and finds himself stuck in his car with an outrageous and possibly demented young lady who might want to murder or make love to him, or both.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
On a rainy night a young professor drives on a twisted road through the woods near Princeton, swerves into a ditch to avoid a girl in a white dress, and finds himself stuck in his car with an outrageous and possibly demented young lady who might want to murder or make love to him, or both.

This ancient ghost story is retold as a funny and frightening play about the relationship of desire to danger and the perils of relying on the kindness of strangers.

In Green Man & Other Plays.

  • Casting: 1M, 1F

NORRIS - in his thirties
MARLA - a very pretty and rather frail looking girl of about twenty