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Copies

  • Brad Slaight
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, New Millennium/21st Century, The Future
  • 2M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780874402285

An an orientation camp for new teenage clones, teens are sent to “Camp I.M.U.” fresh from the lab to make a transition into the world of the “Originals” who have ordered them made. The newest “Copy” (a word they prefer to “clone”) to arrive is a very bright and positive teenager named Michael who soon realizes what the other copies in his cottage have known for awhile...

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century, The Future
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, College Theatre / Student
An an orientation camp for new teenage clones, teens are sent to “Camp I.M.U.” fresh from the lab to make a transition into the world of the “Originals” who have ordered them made. The newest “Copy” (a word they prefer to “clone”) to arrive is a very bright and positive teenager named Michael who soon realizes what the other copies in his cottage have known for awhile – that their stay at the camp is much longer than they had thought. Michael befriends a rebellious Copy named Melissa, who does not get along with her Original and refuses to change her attitude in order to please her. She informs Michael, and the other Copies, that she is going to escape from the camp and fight for what she calls “copy rights”.

This is a story right out of tomorrow’s headlines. Not good at math? Have a clone of yourself made from your own DNA, but gifted in math to do your problems for you. Need a spare part for the future? Your clone is a walking talking parts store. Copies explores the heart and soul of clones, bred specifically to do all those things you don’t want to do.

Premiere Production: Developed in workshop at the Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) In San Francisco.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast

  • MICHAEL/ALLEN - a brand new teenage Copy (clone)
    WENDY/MERRIS - female Copy; eats a lot
    ZOOM/WARNER - not the brightest Copy in the cottage
    BETTY/PETTY - a redesigned Copy
    SANDRA/STEVENSON - a nice Copy who hopes the best
    MELISSA/PETROVICH - a Copy with an attitude and a mission
    COUNSELOR SUE - an Original in charge of Cottage #4
    AMY - an Original who comes to visit.

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    An an orientation camp for new teenage clones, teens are sent to “Camp I.M.U.” fresh from the lab to make a transition into the world of the “Originals” who have ordered them made. The newest “Copy” (a word they prefer to “clone”) to arrive is a very bright and positive teenager named Michael who soon realizes what the other copies in his cottage have known for awhile – that their stay at the camp is much longer than they had thought. Michael befriends a rebellious Copy named Melissa, who does not get along with her Original and refuses to change her attitude in order to please her. She informs Michael, and the other Copies, that she is going to escape from the camp and fight for what she calls “copy rights”. This is a story right out of tomorrow’s headlines. Not good at math? Have a clone of yourself made from your own DNA, but gifted in math to do your problems for you. Need a spare part for the future? Your clone is a walking talking parts store. Copies explores the heart and soul of clones, bred specifically to do all those things you don’t want to do.

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